Avarice Quotes

Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided Republic.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

Avarice, the spur of industry.

There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice.

Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.

Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice.

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

Avarice, the sphincter of the heart.

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

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.

We also must pull from our highest ideals of justice and protect against those ills that destabilized our economy - like predatory lending, over-leveraged financial institutions and the unchecked avarice of the past that trumped fairness and common sense. Our platform calls for significant cuts in federal spending.

Avarice is the vice of declining years.

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.

Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty.

Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.