Quotes About Greeds

Peace is a virtual mute sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds.

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

There are two ways of being rich—have a lot, or want very little. The latter way is the easier for most.

That man has the fewest wants who is the least anxious for wealth.

Every man in the chapel hoped that when his hour came he, too, would be eulogized, which is to say forgiven, and that all of his lapses, greeds, errors, and strayings from the truth would be invested with coherence and looked upon with charity. This was perhaps the last thing humans could give each other and it was what they demanded, after all, of the Lord.

He who has few things to desire cannot have many to fear.

If you desire many things many things will seem but a few.

My New Year's Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle — may they never give me peace.