Quotes About Greed

What treasures here do Mammon's sons behold! Yet know that all that which glitters is not gold.

But then one is always excited by descriptions of money changing hands. It's much more fundamental than sex.

The crop always seems better in our neighbor's field, and our neighbor's cow gives more milk.

Vulgar of manner, overfed. Overdressed and underbred; Heartless, Godless, hell's delight, Rude by day and lewd by night; Bedwarfed the man, o'ergrown the brute, Ruled by boss and prostitute; Purple-robed and pauper-clad, Raving, rotting, money-mad; A squirming herd in Mammon's mesh, A wilderness of human flesh; Crazed with avarice, lust and rum, New York, thy name's Delirium.

Man's heart is never satisfied; the snake would swallow the elephant.

Men are all the same. They always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.

Whatever is not nailed down is mine. Whatever I can pry loose is not nailed down.

The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it.

Of a rich man who was mean and niggardly, he said, "That man does hot possess his estate, but his estate possesses him."

The rich would have to eat money, but luckily the poor provide food.

I think if you ask people what their concept of heaven is, they would say, if they are honest, that it is a big department store, with new things every week - all the money to buy them, and maybe a little more than the neighbours.

Proverty and wealth are comparative sins.

He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That's why it satisfies nobody.

Riches serve a wise man but command a fool.

Riches enlarge, rather than satisfy appetites.

I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

Riches certainly make themselves wings.

He heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

Sex is like money; only too much is enough.

Now as through this world I ramble, I see lots of funny men, Some rob you with a six gun Some with a fountain pen.

Nikad ne možeš biti toliko glup, koliko ja mogu da budem gluv. Nikad ne možeš da budeš tako alav, koliko ja mogu da ti dam. Nikad ne možeš toliko da srušiš, koliko ja mogu iznova da sagradim. I nikad, ali, ama baš nikad, ne možeš da budeš toliko zao, koliko ja mogu da budem dobar.

Teško je zamisliti varoš sa manje novca i slabijim izvorima zarade a sa ve?om že?i za novcem, sa manje volje za radom i veštine da se privredi, a sa više želja i prohteva.

Eve: She had big plans for me. Kind of a pet, I imagine. Like William. Her little trained dog. And with you dead, she figured I'd inherit all your goodies. You're not going to do that to me are you? Roarke: What, die? Eve: Leave me all this stuff. Roarke: Only you would be annoyed by that.