Quotes About Greed

Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.

What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must.

Stealing is a lazy man's way. Something for nothing, leaves you hell to pay.

Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.

Man needs so little... yet he begins wanting so much.

In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.

No man is rich who is unsatisfied, but who wants nothing possess his heart's desire.

The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.

No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.

For often evil men are rich, and good men poor; But we will not exchange with them Our virtue for their wealth since one abides always, While riches change their owners every day.

All history is just one man trying to take something away from another man, and usually it doesn't really belong to either of them.

The man who sailed around his soul From East to West, from pole to pole With ego as his drunken captain Greed, the mutineer, had trapped all reason in the hold

... man is eating the earth up like a candy bar.

As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.

The man in the coon skin cap in the pig pen wants eleven dollar bills, you've only got ten.

How many times have you heard someone say If I had his money I'd do things my way Hmm, but little they know Hmm, it's so hard to find One rich man in ten with a satisfied mind.

Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man's pockets.

Donald Trump's big goal is to become the richest man in the world, abusing the powers of the presidency.

The Plutocracy's insatiable hunger for pixelated information is enough to put a bulimic Pac-Man to shame

There was an Old Man of the East, Who gave all his children a feast; But they all ate so much, and their conduct was such, That it killed that Old Man of the East.

A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''

Men honor property above all else; it has the greatest power in human life.

Great riches have sold more men than they have bought.

When any man accumulates more than he can earn with his own hands, he begins to enrich himself at the expense of the youth, the sweat, the blood, the joy of his fellow men.