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Tag Name "Avarice" (155)

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Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
Saint Francis de Sales
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Be niggards of advice on no pretense For the worst avarice is that of sense.
Alexander Pope
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Avarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted?
Benjamin Franklin
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
Ben Jonson
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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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Money does not sate Avarice, but stimulates it.
Publilius Syrus
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Parsimony is enough to make the master of the golden mines as poor as he that has nothing for a man may be brought to a morsel of bread by parsimony as well as profusion.
Henry Home, Lord Kames
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It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.
Samuel Richardson
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Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.
Thomas Harris
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Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.
Livy
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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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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
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Want is a growing giant whom the coat of have was never large enough to cover.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Some people are so much afraid of being deceived, that they never venture to trust like misers, their avarice destroys their gain.
Norm MacDonald
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Accumulating knowledge is a form of avarice and lends itself to another version of the Midas story ...man [is] so avid for knowledge that everything that he touches turns to facts his faith becomes theology his love becomes lechery his wisdom becomes science pursuing meaning, he ignores truth.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one wants.
Blaise Pascal
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Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.
Charles Caleb Colton
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At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.
Alexander Pope
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The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, according to their power.
Michel de Montaigne
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Frugality is one thing, avarice another.
Horace
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The man who worships mere wealth is a snob.
Anthony Trollope
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Food is not evil, but gluttony is. Childbearing is not evil, but fornication is. Money is not evil, but avarice is. Glory is not evil, but vainglory is. Indeed, there is no evil in existing things, but only in their misuse.
Maximus the Confessor
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As soon as we are stripped of the sordid garb of avarice, we shall be clothed with the royal and imperial vest of the opposite virtue, liberality.
Philip Neri
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What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
Seneca the Younger
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