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Tag Name "Covetousness" (51)

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Covetousness bursts the sack and spills the grain.
Walter Scott
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Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.
Epictetus
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Covetousness, like a candle ill made, smothers the splendor of a happy fortune in its own grease.
Frances Osborne
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Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.
William Penn
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Covetousness is the greatest misfortune. One who does not know what is enough will never have enough.
Laozi
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Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.
Nicolas Chamfort
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Covetousness, anger and foolishness are things to sort out well. When bad things happen in the world, if you look at them comparatively, they are not unrelated to these three things.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pinewoods.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.
Christopher Marlowe
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Satisfaction consists in the cutting off of the causes of the sin. Thus, fasting is the proper antidote to lust prayer to pride, to envy, anger and sloth alms to covetousness.
Richard of Chichester
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There are three things to beware of through life: when a man is young, let him beware of his appetites when he is middle-aged, of his passions and when old, of covetousness, especially.
Confucius
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It [covetousness] is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things.
Thomas Aquinas
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All sin is selfish, whether it be lying, cheating, stealing, immorality, covetousness, or idleness. Sin is for one's own ends, not for another's-certainly not for the Lord's ends.
Derek A. Cuthbert
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Frugality is good if liberality be joined with it. The first is leaving off superfluous expenses the last is bestowing them to the benefit of others that need. The first without the last begets covetousness the last without the first begets prodigality.
William Penn
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Youth covets let not this covetousness seduce you.
Friedrich Schiller
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When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness.
William Shakespeare
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The evils of the body are murder, theft, and adultery of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse and idle talk of the mind, covetousness, hatred and error.
Gautama Buddha
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Being delivered from bodily sins is not enough we must also cleanse the inner energy which dwells in our soul. For out of our hearts 'proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness' (Mk. 7:21) and so on ? these are what motivate people.
Gregory Palamas
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Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues - honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift let us discard all covetousness and greed.
J. Reuben Clark
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Envy is of all others the most ungratifying and disconsolate passion. There is power for ambition, pleasure for luxury, and pelf even for covetousness but envy gets no reward but vexation.
Jeremy Collier
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It isn't sex by itself that makes abortion. It is sex plus covetousness: desiring things that God does not will for us to have because we are not willing to find our satisfaction in him. Illicit sex and unencumbered freedom without children: for these we covet, and abortion is the result.
John Piper
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There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.
Joseph Conrad
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A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people
Al-Ghazali
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The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character.
Lucy Larcom
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