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Covetous men need money least, yet they most affect it; but prodigals, who need it most have the least regard for it. -- Alexander Wilson
Covetous ambition, thinking all too little which presently it hath, supposeth itself to stand in need of that which it hath not. -- Walter Raleigh
Be thrifty, but not covetous. -- George Herbert
Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous. -- Thomas Browne
An unvirtuous citizenry tend to elect representatives who will pander to their covetous lustings. -- Ezra Taft Benson
The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man. -- Sun Tzu
Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness. -- John Milton
I never got a chocolate birthday cake; I got a carob one. And when I went to other kids' houses, I was very covetous of things like Cheez Whiz that I'd find in their refrigerators. -- Amanda Marshall
The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous. -- Orison Swett Marden
If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment. -- Frances Wright
The modern Middle East was largely created by the British. It was they who carried the Allied war effort in the region during World War I and who, at its close, principally fashioned its peace. It was a peace presaged by the nickname given the region by covetous British leaders in wartime: 'The Great Loot.' -- Scott Anderson
The covetous are always in want. -- Horace
the truly covetous have never enough! -- Delarivier Manley
The covetous man is always poor. -- Claudius Claudianus
The covetous man is ever in want. -- Horace
A covetous man's penny is a stone. -- Bill Vaughan
The world itself is too small for the covetous. -- Seneca the Younger
The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all. -- Herman Melville
He is the least in want who is the least covetous. -- Publilius Syrus
Speaking generally, men are ungrateful, fickle, hypocritical, fearful odanger and covetous ogain. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
Who is the covetous man? One for whom plenty is not enough. -- Saint Basil
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly. -- Ben Jonson
Not to be covetous, is money; not to be a purchaser, is a revenue. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian. -- Jonathan Edwards
The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty. -- Thomas Adams
To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may. -- Henry Ward Beecher
The covetous person lives as if the world were made altogether for him, and not he for the world. -- Robert South
The covetous map explores the whole world in pursuit of a subsistence, and fate is close at his heels. -- Saadi
The covetous person is full of fear; and he or she who lives in fear will ever be a slave. -- Horace
The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man. -- Sun Tzu
All of the things that the bible warns you of being: jealous, covetous, murderous, selfish, etc., that's kind of how humans are. -- Henry Rollins
One be covetous when he has little, much or anything between, for covetousness comes from the heart, not from the circumstances of life. -- Charles Caldwell Ryrie
Form no covetous desire, so that the demon of greediness may not deceive thee, and the treasure of the world may not be tasteless to thee. -- Zoroaster
The covetous man is like a camel with a great hunch on his back; heaven's gate must be made Higher and broader, or he will hardly get in. -- Thomas Adams
I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow [perhaps William Lowndes], who used to say, `Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves. -- Lord Chesterfield
If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him. -- Francis Bacon
Riches, in the hands of a man that is wise and generous, are good for something, but in the hands of a sordid, sneaking, covetous miser, they are good for nothing. -- Matthew Henry
I don't know exactly what covetous is, but in my experience it is not so much desiring someone else's virtue or happiness as rejecting it, taking offense at the beauty of it. -- Marilynne Robinson
I hate the man who builds his name On ruins of another's fame. Thus prudes, by characters o'erthrown, Imagine that they raise their own. Thus Scribblers, covetous of praise, Think slander can transplant the bays. -- John Gay

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