Top 100 Quotes About Avarice
#2. Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
Dante Alighieri
#3. The book is worth reading, in part because it is enjoyable to read of
other people's folly, not to mention their avarice and stupidity."
Roger Lowenstein, reviewing "Devil Take the Hindmost: a History
of Financial Speculation", WSJ 6-1-99
Roger Lowenstein
#4. To covet beatitude is also avarice.
Osho
#5. 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.
Petrarch
#6. One of the things you learn as a journalist is that when there's no accountability, we humans are capable of tremendous avarice and venality. That's true of union bosses - and of corporate tycoons. Unions, even flawed ones, can provide checks and balances for flawed corporations.
Nicholas Kristof
#8. Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
Stendhal
#9. It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.
Samuel Richardson
#10. You're one third bad intentions, one third pure avarice, and one eighth sawdust. What's left, I'll credit, must be brains.
Scott Lynch
#11. The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and prodigality avarice; a man's resolution is very often the effect of levity, and his boldness that of cowardice and fear.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#12. Some people are so much afraid of being deceived, that they never venture to trust; like misers, their avarice destroys their gain.
Norm MacDonald
#13. The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#14. Things end. Everything ends. But for a few days in a city full of hunger, and avarice, and alienation - in this fucked-up mess of a life spent wandering in the dark without a hand to hold on to - I was not alone. And neither were you.
Julio Alexi Genao
#16. The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
Charles Caleb Colton
#18. Young people ... have more compassion and tenderness toward the elderly than most middle-aged adults. Nothing
not avarice, not pride, not scrupulousness, not impulsiveness
so disillusions a youth about her parents as the seemingly inhumane way they treat her grandparents.
Louise J. Kaplan
#19. We took advantage of [the Indians'] ignorance and inexperience to incline them the more easily toward treachery, lewdness, avarice, and every sort of inhumanity and cruelty, after the example and pattern of our ways.
Michel De Montaigne
#20. Though the modern world may know a million secrets, the ancient world knew one - and that was greater than the million; for the million secrets breed death, disaster, sorrow, selfishness, lust, and avarice, but the one secret confers life, light, and truth.
Manly P. Hall
#21. It is only luxury and avarice that make poverty grievous to us; for it is a very small matter that does our business, and when we have provided against cold, hunger, and thirst, all the rest is but vanity and excess.
Seneca The Younger
#22. I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame
John Adams
#23. 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.
Martin Amis
#24. Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.
Victor Hugo
#25. Those who covet much suffer from the want.
Horace
#26. Those whose days are consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolties of fashion, unobservant of nature's lovelinessof demarcation, nor on which side thereof an intermediate form should lie.
Aristotle.
#27. How far, O rich, do you extend your senseless avarice? Do you intend to be the sole inhabitants of the earth? Why do you drive out the fellow sharers of nature, and claim it all for yourselves? The earth was made for all, rich and poor, in common. Why do you rich claim it as your exclusive right?
Ambrose
#28. It is not the nature of avarice to be satisfied with anything but money. Every passion that acts upon mankind has a peculiar mode of operation. Many of them are temporary and fluctuating; they admit of cessation and variety. But avarice is a fixed, uniform passion.
Thomas Paine
#30. Greed and avarice have clouded their judgment,
Vernon Baker
#32. All the vices lead to fortune when they are joined with the vilest of all
avarice. This is the secret of life.
Edouard Rene De Laboulaye
#33. There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice.
Thomas Clarkson
#34. Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.
Gautama Buddha
#35. Prodigality is indeed the vice of a weak nature, as avarice is of a strong one; it comes of a weak craving for those blandishments of the world which are easily to be had for money, and which, when obtained, are as much worse than worthless as a harlot's love is worse than none.
Henry Taylor
#36. Mankind being originally equals in the order of creation, the equality could only be destroyed by some subsequent circumstance; the distinctions of rich, and poor, may in a great measure be accounted for, and that without having recourse to the harsh, ill-sounding names of oppression and avarice.
Thomas Paine
#38. Worry, hate, fear-together with their offshoots: anxiety, bitterness, impatience, avarice, unkindness, judgmentalness, and condemnation-all attack the body at the cellular level. It is impossible to have a healthy body under these conditions.
Neale Donald Walsch
#39. Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even moral philosophy of human pride. Thus the arts and sciences owe their birth to our vices.
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
#41. It is practically an axiom in psychiatry that precocious intellect combined with physical weakness can give rise to many unpleasant character traits - avarice, delusions of grandeur , and obsessive masturbation, to name just a few.
Sam Savage
#42. Things joined by profit, when pressed by misfortune and danger, will cast each other aside.
Zhuangzi
#44. Children are taught to fear and obey; the avarice, pride, or timidity of parents teaches children economy, arrogance, or submission. They are also encouraged to be imitators, a course to which they are already only too much inclined. No one thinks of making them original, courageous, independent.
Luc De Clapiers
#45. By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber.
Henry David Thoreau
#46. A good bank is the one that does good to its community and a bad bank is the one that feeds the avarice of corrupt individuals. Very simple.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#47. Despite his Falstaffian appearance he was a hard and ruthless man. His piggish eyes were filled with greed; his fleshy mouth was lustful; his only natural smile was one of avarice.
H.P. Lovecraft
#48. Whatever be the motives which induce men to write,
whether avarice or fame,
the country becomes more wise and happy in which they most serve for instructors.
Oliver Goldsmith
#49. The strongest passions and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venal love of fame, are all in conspiracy against the desire and duty of peace
James Madison
#50. Passions often produce their contraries: avarice sometimes leads to prodigality, and prodigality to avarice; we are often obstinate through weakness and daring through timidity.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#51. Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
C.S. Lewis
#53. But unscrupulous ambition has nothing to work upon, save in a nation corrupted by avarice and luxury. Moreover, a people becomes avaricious and luxurious by prosperity.
Augustine Of Hippo
#54. Lack of luxury is not a reason to push others to poverty. ~ Michael A. van Doorn, Odyssey of a Heart, Home of a Soul
Angelica Hopes
#55. So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.
Lord Byron
#56. To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.
William Penn
#57. There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair
Dante Alighieri
#58. At bottom the character of M. Bonacieux was one of profound selfishness mixed with sordid avarice, the whole seasoned with extreme cowardice.
Alexandre Dumas
#59. Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things
Benjamin Franklin
#60. 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?
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#61. While one may lose much because of avarice, nothing was ever accomplished by abstinence.
Isuna Hasekura
#62. Avarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted?
Benjamin Franklin
#63. The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
Pliny The Elder
#64. We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#65. Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.
Hans Urs Von Balthasar
#66. Avarice and injustice are always shortsighted, and they did not foresee how much this regulation must obstruct improvement, and thereby hurt in the long-run the real interest of the landlord.
Adam Smith
#67. In these latter years wealth has brought avarice in its train, and the unlimited command of pleasure has created in men a passion for ruining themselves and everything else through self-indulgence and licentiousness.
Livy
#68. 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
Angelica Hopes
#69. Avarice, with all its black attendants, is confessedly a crime of old age, and seldom arrives at maturity till accompanied with gray hairs.
Mary Collyer
#71. For pride and avarice and envy are the three fierce sparks that set all hearts ablaze.
Dante Alighieri
#72. A victim of your own greed..wallowing in the muck of avarice.
Jake Roberts
#74. For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly?
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#75. It is by bribing, not so often by being bribed, that wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind. Avarice is a rival to the pursuits of many.
Edmund Burke
#76. Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe to a judge, or avarice to old age ...
Jonathan Swift
#77. Plenty of slick, shiny women watching my man with avarice in their eyes. It was something I'd have to get used to. I couldn't kill all of them. I mean, where on earth would I hide so many bodies?
Anonymous
#78. Take taking from those that give & nobody anywhere will need any more such gifts.
Kenneth Patchen
#79. Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#80. Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as poverty of what it has not.
Publilius Syrus
#81. Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.
Francis Of Assisi
#82. 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.
Lucian
#84. Thus strife and anger beget war, avarice stifles benevolence, envy produces hate. But friendship overcoming all these difficulties, finds out the virtuous, and unites them together. For,
Xenophon
#86. I am determined not to assume the sacerdotal office, for I have seen many men whom I have regarded as persons of good character and liberal dispositions, degenerate into avarice, sloth, and dissipation, in consequence of their introduction into the priesthood
Poggio Bracciolini
#88. When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.
Alexander Hamilton
#89. 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.
John Maynard Keynes
#90. 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.
Michel De Montaigne
#91. We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
Samuel Johnson
#92. Whereas God, for reasons of His own, sometimes chooses to let the machine answer. The Supreme Being is unavailable to come to the phone at this time, but He wants you to know what your call is important to Him. In the meantime, for sins of pride, press one. For avarice, press two ...
Richard Russo
#93. I am not surprised that there are gambling houses, like so many snares laid for human avarice; like abysses where many a man's money is engulfed and swallowed up without any hope of return; like frightful rocks against which the gamblers are thrown and perish.
Jean De La Bruyere
#94. Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous.
Archibald Primrose
#95. Gluttony and sloth, as worldly goals, were quietly usurped by avarice and lust, which, together with poetry (yes, poetry), consumed all my free time.
Martin Amis
#97. 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.
John A. Logan
#98. The avarice of mankind is insatiable.
Aristotle.
#99. Lasting peace is sought, it is essential to adopt international measures to improve the lot of the masses. The welfare of the entire human race must replace hunger and oppression. People of the world must be taught to give up envy, avarice and rancour.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
#100. Avarice is the most oppose of all characters to that of God Almighty, whose alone it is to give and not receive.
William Shenstone
