Explore the wonderful quotes under this tag
Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty.
Sep 17, 2025
Yet avarice is numbered among the sins, but stupidity omitted.
To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.
For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
Avarice, greed, concupiscence and so forth are all based on the mathematical truism that the more you get, the more you have. The remark of that it is more blessed to give than to receive is based on the human truth that the more you give away in love, the more you are. It is not just for the sake of other people that tells us to give rather than get, but for our own sakes too.
Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it
So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.
The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
Avarice is the vice of declining years.
Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.
Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as poverty of what it has not.
Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.
Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.
You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.
For avarice begins where poverty ends.
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
There is no such thing as material covetousness. All covetousness is spiritual. ...Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.
Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough.
Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
... a bad attitude, that the love of money is the root of all evil and the rich are evil and greedy and all that stuff. It’s basically socialism and communism.
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
It's more blessed to give than to receive - especially kittens.
The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.
All collections loaded