Quotes About Covetousness

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

Some people's measure of success is how much they can grab hold of and hold on to.

Ah, Caderousse,' said Andrea, 'how covetous you are! Two months ago you were dying with hunger.' 'The appetite grows by what it feeds on,' said Caderousse.

Envy is envy, both for the wind and for men on earth. The better the place, the more others covet what you have. Be a pauper, a wanderer, a secret in the darkness of night. Once you possess something others do not, you are a target for the wicked.

One be covetous when he has little, much or anything between, for covetousness comes from the heart, not from the circumstances of life.

Remember, the grass is always greener where you don't happen to be the neighbor.

On the other hand, it's like we're three years old. You don't want that scruffy old teddy bear until your friend takes it and starts having a good time with it. Then suddenly it's the cutest bear you've ever seen, and you want to get it away from her.

Thy money perish with thee.

For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

All men beneath your position covet your station

Greed knows no shame

Human nature is always desirous of what one has not got!

You have not accomplished anything significant if no one envies you.

If you are greedy, what is inside you is what makes you always hungry.

If you are greedy, what is inside you is what makes you always hungry," said Popo.

When someone covets something they desire and lust over it.Usually it's something they can't have. You've always had that problem...

15And he said to them, Take heed, and beware of all covetousness; for a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.

28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a base mind and to improper conduct. 29They were filled with all manner of wickedness, evil, covetousness, malice. Full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity, they are gossips, 30slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.

That the covetous wants that which he has, as   well as that which he has not; because he is master of nothing, and is   the slave of his own wealth.

Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee (Heb. 13:5).

There is only one vice, which may be found in life with as strong features, and as high a colouring as needs be employed by any satyrist or comic poet; and that is AVARICE.

favourites.-There is, of course, here and there on this terrestrial sphere a kind of sequel to love, in which that envious longing of two persons for one another has yielded to a new desire and covetousness, to a common, higher thirst for a superior ideal standing above them : but who knows this love? Who has experienced it? Its right name is friendship.