Quotes About Avarice

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms—greed for life, for money, for love, for knowledge—has marked the upward surge of mankind. (Gordon Gekko, in Wall Street.

My wants are many, and, if told, would muster many a score; and were each wish a mint of gold, I still would want for more.

Avarice is reprehensible acquisitiveness, excessive and insatiable desire to acquire or possess more wealth, riches or material gain than one needs or deserves. In other words, avarice is the highest level of greed or greediness. Now listen up, wealth or success is good and worthwhile too. But, you should not quest for it desperately, fraudulently or dubiously. Besides that, genuine wealth or success is meant to be acquired or achieved overtime and not at all overnight. -Emeasoba George

My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them

Poverty wants few things, avarice everything.

He who seeks to regulate everything by law is more likely to arouse vices than to reform them. It is best to grant what cannot be abolished, even though it be in itself harmful. How many evils spring from luxury, envy, avarice, drunkenness and the like, yet these are tolerated because they cannot be prevented by legal enactments.

There are two kinds of avaricious person—the bold, grasping type who will ruin you if he can, but who never looks twice at twopence, and the petty miser who has not the enterprise actually to MAKE money, but who will always, as the saying goes, take a farthing from a dunghill with his teeth.

Toujours la générosité s'oppose au mouvement de l'avarice, comme au calcul raisonné la passion.

You're one-third bad intentions, one-third pure avarice, and one-eighth sawdust. What's left, I'll credit, must be brains.

Der Reichtum gleicht dem Seewasser: je mehr man davon trinkt, desto durstiger wird man. - Dasselbe gilt vom Ruhm.

It is just a lonely certainty that we are right and everybody else wrong, which makes it worthwhile for us busy-bodies to go on making a nuisance of ourselves. Our job is to keep both the simple Philistine and the greedy rich in their places, to prevent them, in their stupidity and avarice, from destroying everything that is left.

Charity is fortune, avarice is poverty, peace is treasure, and happiness is wealth.

Fraud is the daughter of greed.

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. Adams

Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things

Avarice and happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted.

Some people, no matter how much money they have, they want to keep it for themselves.

Hunger for gold is made greater as more gold is acquired.

of greed, which is the opposite of love.

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

Greed is the worst thing.

it is the nature of avarice to mislead.

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

They sin who tell us Love can die: With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity, In Heaven Ambition cannot dwell, Nor Avarice in the vaults of Hell.