Quotes About Covetousness

Always wanting another man than your own.

The poor man is he who, having much, craves for more.

An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.

The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character.

Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.

I wouldn't sell my bike for all the money in the world. Not for a hundred million, trillion, billion dollars!

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

When money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind which is called avarice.

Money swore an oath that nobody who did not love it should ever have it.

If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.

Envy is human nature.

Greed may not be good, but it's not so bad either. You humans think greed is just for money or power, but everyone wants something they can't have.

You have, may be, heard of the covetous man, that hugged himself in the many bags of gold he had, but never opened them or used them. When the thief took away his gold, and left him his bags full of pebbles in the room, he was as happy as when he had his gold, for he looked not on the one or other. And verily an ignorant person is in a manner no better with truth than error on his side. Both are alike to him, day and night all one to a blind man.

There are two kinds of people in the world, Norman. People who have things and people who want the things other people have.

Even in the Bible, the admonition in the Ten Commandments not to 'covet thy neighbor's wife' clearly referred not to lust in one's heart (adultery had already been covered in commandment number seven), but to the prospect of taking her as a debt-peon—in other words, as a servant to sweep one's yard and hang out the laundry.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

Pride avarice and envy are in every home.

Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.

As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.

Be Charitable before wealth make thee covetous, and loose not the glory of the Mite.

We had no longing for excessive wealth: a mere competency, though earned by daily toil, so that it was reasonably sure, and free from the drag of continued indebtedness to others, was all we coveted.

Our envy of others devours us most of all.