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Tag Name "Avarice" (116)

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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
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Avarice fills its purse at the expense of its belly.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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Avarice is the miser's dream, as fame is the poet's.
William Hazlitt
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Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as poverty of what it has not.
Publilius Syrus
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Avarice is the most oppose of all characters to that of God Almighty, whose alone it is to give and not receive.
William Shenstone
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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
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Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals.
Anna Brownell Jameson
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Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.
Charles Caleb Colton
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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
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Avarice, or the desire of gain, is a universal passion which operates at all times, at all places, and upon all persons.
David Hume
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Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty.
Edmund Pendleton
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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
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avarice is especially, I suppose, a disease of the imagination.
Sara Coleridge
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Avarice starves its possessor to fatten those who come after, and who are eagerly awaiting the demise of the accumulator.
Sir Fulke Greville
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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
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Avarice, where it has full dominion, excludes every other passion.
William E. Gladstone
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Avarice is insatiable, and is always pushing on for more.
Roger L'Estrange
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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
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Avarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted?
Benjamin Franklin
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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
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Avarice, the spur of industry.
David Hume
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Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.
Livy
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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
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