Avarice famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Avarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted?
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Yet avarice is numbered among the sins, but stupidity omitted.
-- E. B. Farnum -
What must be the wealth that avarice, aided by power, cannot exhaust!
-- James Otis -
Avarice increases with the increasing pile of gold.
-- Juvenal -
When money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind which is called avarice.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
Money does not sate Avarice, but stimulates it.
-- Publilius Syrus -
Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as poverty of what it has not.
-- Publilius Syrus -
It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.
-- Samuel Richardson -
Avarice starves its possessor to fatten those who come after, and who are eagerly awaiting the demise of the accumulator.
-- Sir Fulke Greville -
There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice.
-- Thomas Clarkson -
I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
-- George Edward Moore