Avarice Quotes

Avarice Quote of the day

We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all.

Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided republic.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

Is it not enough that we are torn from our country and friends, to toil for your luxury and lust of gain? Must every tender feeling be likewise sacrificed to your avarice?

All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

If you are attached to the things of this earth, you should give alms sufficient to enable you to punish your avarice by depriving yourself of all that is not absolutely necessary for life.

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.

Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness and avarice and mediocrity and materialism and selfishness that have chilled his faith.

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.

There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer.

Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things

These are the Seven Deadly Sins: Avarice, Envy, Pride, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Sloth. These are the seven deadly sins: venality, paranoia, insecurity, excess, carnality, contempt, boredom.

Have we come all this way, I wondered, only to be dismantled by our own technologies, to be betrayed by political connivance or the impersonal avarice of a corporation?

Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.

There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.

Scenes are now to take place as will open the eyes of credulity and of insanity itself, to the dangers of a paper medium abandoned to the discretion of avarice and of swindlers.

God uses lust to impel men to marry, ambition to office, avarice to earning, and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind goat.

A victim of your own greed, wallowing in the muck of avarice.

It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.

Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.

In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.

Yet avarice is numbered among the sins, but stupidity omitted.

As soon as we are stripped of the sordid garb of avarice, we shall be clothed with the royal and imperial vest of the opposite virtue, liberality.

Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

Some people are so much afraid of being deceived, that they never venture to trust; like misers, their avarice destroys their gain.

When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.

Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.

The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else's good.

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.

Be niggards of advice on no pretense; For the worst avarice is that of sense.

Avarice is the vice of declining years.

It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.

Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

Avarice, the spur of industry.

Avarice starves its possessor to fatten those who come after, and who are eagerly awaiting the demise of the accumulator.

The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty.

Loosen the bonds of avarice from your hands and neck.

Three sparks - pride, envy, and avarice - have been kindled in all hearts.

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

The avarice of mankind is insatiable.