Avarice Quote by Samuel Johnson Download Open image “Avarice is always poor.” — Samuel Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Avarice Christian Poor
Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as poverty of what it has not. — Publilius Syrus Copy Share Image
Though avarice will prevent a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality, and the blindest thoughtlessness of expenditure has not destroyed so many fortunes as the calculating but insatiable… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant expectations; others mistake great… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there is a… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich. — Martial Copy Share Image
A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In our own time the whole of Greece has been subject to a low birth rate and a general decrease of the population, owing… — Polybius Copy Share Image
avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else's good. — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pcanet, and other powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before… — Tecumseh Copy Share Image
The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
'Maneater' is about N.Y.C. in the '80s. It's about greed, avarice, and spoiled riches. — John Oates Copy Share Image
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for empire; it… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Gluttony should be destroyed by self-control; unchastity by desire for God and longing for the blessings held in store; avarice by compassion for the… — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
Riches with their wicked inducements increase; nevertheless, avarice is never satisfied. — Horace Copy Share Image
