Quotes About Greed

Fie on possession, But if a man be vertuous withal.

Vertue flies from the heart of a Mercenary man.

When all men have what belongs to them, it cannot bee much. [When all men have what belongs to them, it cannot be much.]

A man who fights for coin is loyal only to his purse.

In the world as I have seen it, no man grows rich by kindness.

Cardinal Mazarin was a great knave, but no great man; much more cunning than able; scandalously false and dirtily greedy.

Avarice is a cursed vice: offer a man enough gold, and he will part with his own small hoard of food, however great his hunger.

World has things which full fill man needs, but not greeds.

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

How shrunk, how dwindled, in our times Creation's mighty seed - For Man has broke the Fellowship With murder, lust, and greed.

No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.

In the race for money some men may come first, but man comes last.

In every height, man feels himself in the low; because man is greedy and unsatisfied!

Riches too increase, and the maddening craving for gold, So that men ever seek for more, that they may have the most.

If the gatherer gathers too-much, Nature takes out of the man what she puts into his chest; swells the estate, but kills the owner. Nature hates, monopolies and exceptions.

Man seeks his own good at the whole world's cost.

Kaisers and Czars will strut the stage Once more with pomp and greed and rage; Courtly ministers will stop At home and fight to the last drop; By the million men will die In some new horrible agony.

The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.

Men will tell you sometimes that "money's hard." That shows it was not made to eat, I say.... Some of those who sank with the steamer the other day found out that money was heavy too.

A man's wealth is measured by what he doesn't need.

Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.

The covetous man is ever in want.

It is to be remedied that the false traitors will suffer no man to come into the king's presence for no cause without bribes where none ought to be had.

It is not the fact that a man has riches which keeps him from the kingdom of heaven, but the fact that riches have him.