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Avarice, the spur of industry. -- David Hume
Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance. -- Charles Caleb Colton
We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still. -- John Maynard Keynes
Avarice is always poor. -- Samuel Johnson
Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it -- Samuel Johnson
Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home. -- Thornton Wilder
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all. -- Stendhal
Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men. -- Dante Alighieri
Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more. -- William Wordsworth
The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth. -- Pliny the Elder
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. -- Petrarch
Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust. -- Marquis de Sade
Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided Republic. -- John A. Logan
Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness. -- Hans Urs von Balthasar
The avarice of mankind is insatiable. -- Aristotle
Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything. -- Publilius Syrus
Avarice, the sphincter of the heart. -- Matthew Green
Avarice is fear sheathed in gold. -- Paul Eldridge
Avarice is rarely the vice of youth ... -- Sophia Lee
Avarice is the vice of declining years. -- George Bancroft
Fear, Craft and Avarice Cannot rear a State. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money does not sate Avarice, but stimulates it. -- Publilius Syrus
Avarice increases with the increasing pile of gold. -- Juvenal
Avarice is more opposite to economy than liberality. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things. -- Seneca the Younger
Avarice, where it has full dominion, excludes every other passion. -- William E. Gladstone
Avarice fills its purse at the expense of its belly. -- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Avarice is the miser's dream, as fame is the poet's. -- William Hazlitt
Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things -- Benjamin Franklin
Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals -- Anna Brownell Jameson
Riches with their wicked inducements increase; nevertheless, avarice is never satisfied. -- Horace
In vain doth valour bleed, While Avarice and Rapine share the land. -- John Milton
My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them! -- Emily Dickinson
Avarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted? -- Benjamin Franklin
So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice. -- Lord Byron
Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state. -- Livy
Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as poverty of what it has not. -- Publilius Syrus
The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit. -- Horace
I can cure the gout or stone in some, sooner than Divinity, Pride, or Avarice in others. -- Thomas Browne
The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Avarice starves its possessor to fatten those who come after, and who are eagerly awaiting the demise of the accumulator. -- Sir Fulke Greville
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. -- Erich Fromm
Avarice is the most oppose of all characters to that of God Almighty, whose alone it is to give and not receive. -- William Shenstone
Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty. -- Edmund Pendleton
Avarice, or the desire of gain, is a universal passion which operates at all times, at all places, and upon all persons. -- David Hume
Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous. -- Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
Avarice, with all its black attendants, is confessedly a crime of old age, and seldom arrives at maturity till accompanied with gray hairs. -- Mary Collyer
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. -- Lucian
It is by bribing, not so often by being bribed, that wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind. Avarice is a rival to the pursuits of many. -- Edmund Burke
These are the Seven Deadly Sins: Avarice, Envy, Pride, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Sloth. These are the seven deadly sins: venality, paranoia, insecurity, excess, carnality, contempt, boredom. -- Martin Amis
Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality, and the blindest thoughtlessness of expenditure has not destroyed so many fortunes as the calculating but insatiable lust of accumulation. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Avarice and injustice are always shortsighted, and they did not foresee how much this regulation must obstruct improvement, and thereby hurt in the long-run the real interest of the landlord. -- Adam Smith
Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant expectations; others mistake great future advantages for small present interests. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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. -- Robert Southey
Avarice misapprehends itself almost always. There is no passion which more often will miss its aim, nor upon which the present has so much influence to the prejudice of the future. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer. -- Seneca the Younger
Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride of one will offend the pride of another, but to the favor of the covetous bring money, and nothing is denied. -- Samuel Johnson
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 is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other. -- John Adams
I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice. -- Edward Moore
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. -- Walter Savage Landor
Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things. -- Seneca the Younger
Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice. -- Andreas Capellanus
Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness. -- Cyril Connolly
Maneater' is about N.Y.C. in the '80s. It's about greed, avarice, and spoiled riches. -- John Oates
We also must pull from our highest ideals of justice and protect against those ills that destabilized our economy - like predatory lending, over-leveraged financial institutions and the unchecked avarice of the past that trumped fairness and common sense. Our platform calls for significant cuts in federal spending. -- Cory Booker
Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings. -- Andreas Capellanus
I entreat masters to live a good life and faithfully to instruct their scholars, especially that they may love God and learn to give themselves to knowledge, in order to promote His honour, the welfare of the state, and their own salvation, but not for the sake of avarice or the praise of man. -- Jan Hus
There's something unique about the United States, a sense of individual rights and freedoms, and a sense of social and civic responsibility that we contributed to so much of the world. We lost that mission in the 1980s and 1990s, when we entered a gilded age, and the culture of individualism became a culture of avarice. -- George Hickenlooper
I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every one of these vices is odious in itself, as because each of them separately and all of them together are utterly abhorrent in men making profession of a life dedicated to God. -- Francesco Guicciardini
Where poverty ceases, avarice begins. -- Honore de Balzac
Poverty needs much, avarice everything. -- Seneca the Younger
For avarice begins where poverty ends. -- Honore de Balzac
Frugality is one thing, avarice another. -- Horace
Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice. -- Charles Caleb Colton
I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice. -- Edward Moore
Yet avarice is numbered among the sins, but stupidity omitted. -- E. B. Farnum
Three sparks--pride, envy, and avarice--have been kindled in all hearts. -- Dante Alighieri
avarice is especially, I suppose, a disease of the imagination. -- Sara Coleridge
Loosen the bonds of avarice from your hands and neck. -- Rumi
The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice. -- Michel de Montaigne
Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality. -- Charles Caleb Colton
A victim of your own greed..wallowing in the muck of avarice. -- Jake Roberts
To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom. -- William Penn
Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs. -- Joseph Addison
What must be the wealth that avarice, aided by power, cannot exhaust! -- James Otis
There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice. -- Thomas Clarkson
You despise a man for avarice; but you do not hate him. -- Samuel Johnson
My regimen is lust and avarice for exercise, gluttony and sloth for relaxation. -- Mason Cooley
Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
While one may lose much because of avarice, nothing was ever accomplished by abstinence. -- Isuna Hasekura
The din of corporate avarice is a blister boil on the buttocks of humanity." -- C.B. Smith
Be niggards of advice on no pretense; For the worst avarice is that of sense. -- Alexander Pope
It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief. -- George Washington
There is no vice which humankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice. -- Jonathan Swift
To me avarice seems not so much a vice as a deplorable piece of madness. -- Thomas Browne
There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair -- Dante Alighieri
When money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind which is called avarice. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice. -- Sarah Josepha Hale
Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead. -- C. S. Lewis
Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition. -- Edmund Burke
Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair. -- Gautama Buddha
Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes. -- Juvenal
Though avarice will prevent a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy. -- Thomas Paine
It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork. -- C. S. Lewis
The path of love has many opponents - fear, self-pity, anxiety, hate, lust, greed, avarice - all the usual freinds. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
You're one third bad intentions,one third pure avarice,and one eighth sawdust.What's left,I'll credit,must be brains. -- Scott Lynch
avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else's good. -- St. Catherine of Siena
All the vices lead to fortune when they are joined with the vilest of all--avarice. This is the secret of life. -- Edouard Rene de Laboulaye
If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother, luxuries. [Lat., Avaritiam si tollere vultis, mater ejus est tollenda, luxuries.] -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly? -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community. -- Baron de Montesquieu
Some people are so much afraid of being deceived, that they never venture to trust; like misers, their avarice destroys their gain. -- Norm MacDonald
I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame -- John Adams
Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice; whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born. -- William Shenstone
We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice. -- Samuel Johnson

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