Avarice Quotes

Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals.

All the vices lead to fortune when they are joined with the vilest of all--avarice. This is the secret of life.

Avarice misapprehends itself almost always. There is no passion which more often will miss its aim, nor upon which the present has so much influence to the prejudice of the future.

The path of love has many opponents - fear, self-pity, anxiety, hate, lust, greed, avarice - all the usual freinds.

Riches with their wicked inducements increase; nevertheless, avarice is never satisfied.

I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame

Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.

Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.

Avarice is a cursed vice: offer a man enough gold, and he will part with his own small hoard of food, however great his hunger.

For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly?

If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother, luxuries. [Lat., Avaritiam si tollere vultis, mater ejus est tollenda, luxuries.]

What the object of senile avarice may be I cannot conceive. For can there be anything more absurd than to seek more journey money, the less there remains of the journey?

Gluttony and sloth, as worldly goals, were quietly usurped by avarice and lust, which, together with poetry (yes, poetry), consumed all my free time.

Avarice, with all its black attendants, is confessedly a crime of old age, and seldom arrives at maturity till accompanied with gray hairs.

My regimen is lust and avarice for exercise, gluttony and sloth for relaxation.

Eternal joy can never be taken from God's people. Therefore ambition, restlessness, and avarice can be put away for the first time as we rest more and more in the work of the Son of God.

The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, according to their power.

Money does not sate Avarice, but stimulates it.

Fear, Craft and Avarice Cannot rear a State.

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

avarice is especially, I suppose, a disease of the imagination.

What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice.

You're one third bad intentions,one third pure avarice,and one eighth sawdust.What's left,I'll credit,must be brains.

Poverty needs much, avarice everything.

We are at best but stewards of what we falsely call our own; yet avarice is so insatiable that it is not in the power of liberality to content it.

Avarice is rarely the vice of youth.

To me avarice seems not so much a vice as a deplorable piece of madness.

I can cure the gout or stone in some, sooner than Divinity, Pride, or Avarice in others.

Avarice fills its purse at the expense of its belly.

Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches; and tho' avarice will preserve a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.

Avarice is the miser's dream, as fame is the poet's.

Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.

If you push your luck too hard, fortune's muscles might tear.

From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort and pleasure

Two hungry wolves let loose among sheep are not more harmful then a person craving after wealth and status is to his Deen (Religion).

Lack of luxury is not a reason to push others to poverty. ~ Michael A. van Doorn, Odyssey of a Heart, Home of a Soul

Greed is taking more than you need to feed. Avarice is hoarding, and stockpiling stolen, rotten goods.

When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.

Loan sharking may mean investment and immediate solutions but desperate loan sharks, who are short of cash, abuse your rights and attack other people's home. ~ Odyssey of a Heart, Home of a Soul

Things joined by profit, when pressed by misfortune and danger, will cast each other aside.

Take taking from those that give & nobody anywhere will need any more such gifts.

Avarice is opposed to nobility.It believes that by robbing many of all they have, that it (greed) is cloaked in the nobility that is the birthmark of the people.

The avarice, the hunger for materialistic possessions and the dependency upon alcohol had gradually become stronger and stronger. And now, it was the sum total of what she was.

Avarice is patriotic!

It is no exaggeration to say that the rich own most of what there is that is not nailed down.