Quote: Avarice is the vice of declining years. Author: George Bancroft 1800-1891, American Historian
Quote: Greed is all right, by the way I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself. Author: Ivan F. Boesky
Quote: Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession. Author: Andre Breton 1989-1966, French Surrealist
Quote: So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice. Author: Lord Byron 1788-1824, British Poet
Quote: I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo; your time has come and gone. It's time for change in America. Author: Bill Clinton 1946-, Forty-second President of the USA
Quote: Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance. Author: Charles Caleb Colton 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer
Quote: Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear. Author: Cyril Connolly 1903-1974, British Critic
Quote: From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is far beyond all it can attain. Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned. Author: Emile Durkheim 1858-1917, French Sociologist
Quote: The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever. Author: Anatole France 1844-1924, French Writer
Quote: The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system. Author: Milton Friedman 1912-, American Economist
Quote: Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. Author: Erich Fromm 1900-1980, American Psychologist
Quote: If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too. Author: Thomas Fuller 1608-1661, British Clergyman, Author
Quote: Avarice is the sphincter of the heart. Author: Matthew Green
Quote: The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit. Author: Horace BC 65-8, Italian Poet
Quote: Avarice, the spur of industry. Author: David Hume 1711-1776, Scottish Philosopher, Historian
Quote: Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor. Author: Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826, Third President of the USA
Quote: 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. Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author
Quote: For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still. Author: John Maynard Keynes 1883-1946, British Economist
Quote: The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes. Author: Niccolo Machiavelli 1469-1527, Italian Author, Statesman
Quote: You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker. Author: Malcolm X 1925-1965, American Black Leader, Activist
Quote: It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice. Author: Michel Eyquem De Montaigne 1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist
Quote: To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom. Author: William Penn 1644-1718, British Religious Leader, Founder of Pennsylvania
Quote: God forgives the sin of gluttony. Author: Catalan Proverb
Quote: Big mouthfuls often choke. Author: Italian Proverb Sayings of Italian Origin
Quote: Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame. Author: Arthur Schopenhauer 1788-1860, German Philosopher
Quote: For greed all nature is too little. Author: Seneca 4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher
Quote: Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself are much condemned to have an itching palm. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service. Author: Socrates BC 469-399, Greek Philosopher of Athens
Quote: He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise. Author: Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist
Quote: It is of the nobility of man's soul that he is insatiable: for he hath a benefactor so prone to give, that he delighteth in us for asking. Do not your inclinations tell you that the WORLD is yours? Do you not covet all? Do you not long to have it; to enjoy it; to overcome it? To what end do men gather riches, but to multiply more? Do they not like Pyrrhus the King of Epire, add house to house and lands to lands, that they may get it all? Author: Thomas Traherne 1636-1674, British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic
Quote: The point is that you can't be too greedy. Author: Donald Trump 1946-, American Businessman
Quote: Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him. Author: Voltaire 1694-1778, French Historian, Writer