Avarice Quote by Samuel Johnson

Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as poverty of what it has not.

— Publilius Syrus

Though avarice will prevent a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.

— Thomas Paine

Avarice is insatiable, and is always pushing on for more.

— Roger L'Estrange

“For avarice begins where poverty ends.”

— Honoré de Balzac

Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.

— Honore de Balzac

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

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

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

Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.

— Publilius Syrus

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

If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.

— Martial

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