50 Quotes About Avarice

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.

Well, there are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. Then there are people who stand around and watch them eat it. (Softly) Sometimes I think it ain't right to stand and watch them do it.

Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.

Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.

For avarice begins where poverty ends.

There is no place, it seems, free from the intrusion of Man, who stretches out his hand for everything, even that which is in the air.

Envy is Pride's infection on inspiration...while Angered then Eaten by the Greed of a Lazy Lust.

Unhappy Land, whose Blessings tempt the Sword.Eclogue the Fourth. Agib and Secander; or the Fugitives

In order to make them overlook our greed, or to make us seem less greedy than we are, we sometimes remind some people that, if and when we catch it, the wealth that we are relentlessly chasing would enable us to help a lot of poor people.