Avarice Quotes - Page 10

• Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.

  Honore de Balzac

  Poverty, Cease

  Honore de Balzac (2009). “Lost Illusions”, p.16, The Floating Press

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• Let us treasure up in our soul some of those things which are permanent..., not of those which will forsake us and be destroyed, and which only tickle our senses for a little while.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Greed, Soul, Treasure

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• I am not surprised that there are gambling houses, like so many snares laid for human avarice; like abysses where many a man's money is engulfed and swallowed up without any hope of return; like frightful rocks against which the gamblers are thrown and perish.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Gambling, Rocks

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• I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame

  John Adams

  Jealousy, Ambition, Envy

  John Adams (1854). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.593

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• Avarice is a cursed vice: offer a man enough gold, and he will part with his own small hoard of food, however great his hunger.

  Lucian

  Men, Greed, Gold

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• We took advantage of [the Indians'] ignorance and inexperience to incline them the more easily toward treachery, lewdness, avarice, and every sort of inhumanity and cruelty, after the example and pattern of our ways.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Ignorance, America, Inexperience

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• Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness and avarice and mediocrity and materialism and selfishness that have chilled his faith.

  Thomas Merton

  Selfish, Believe, Men

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• The miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct from its living form.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Order, Greed

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2012). “The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton”, p.112, Ignatius Press

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• When we desire or solicit anything, our minds run wholly on the good side or circumstances of it; when it is obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones.

  Jonathan Swift

  Running, Greed, Mind

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.893, Delphi Classics

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• Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Boredom, Made, Ennui

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• What is at the heart of all national problems? It is that we have seen the hand of material interest sometimes about to close upon our dearest rights and possessions.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Heart, Rights, Hands

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.19, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• We have now learned that rashness and imprudence will not be deterred from taking credit; let us try whether fraud and avarice may be more easily restrained from giving it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Giving, Trying, Credit

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.377

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• There are men who gain from their wealth only the fear of losing it.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Men, Greed, Gains

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• Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes a pestilence, and sometimes a hero, for the chastisement of mankind; none of them surely for our admiration.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Hero, Ambition, Pestilence

  Walter Savage Landor (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• Be assured that, although men of eminent genius have been guilty of all other vices, none worthy of more than a secondary name has ever been a gamester. Either an excess of avarice or a deficiency of what, in physics, is called excitability, is the cause of it; neither of which can exist in the same bosom with genius, with patriotism, or with virtue.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Men, Names, Gambling

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].”, p.125

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• By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mean, Selfishness, Landscape

  Henry David Thoreau, Michael McCurdy, Terry Tempest Williams (2010). “Walden”, p.88, Shambhala Publications

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• The deepest poverty is the inability of joy, the tediousness of a life considered absurd and contradictory. This poverty is widespread today, in very different forms in the materially rich as well as the poor countries. The inability of joy presupposes and produces the inability to love, produces jealousy, avarice - all defects that devastate the life of individuals and of the world. This is why we are in need of a new evangelization - if the art of living remains an unknown, nothing else works... this art can only be communicated by [one] who has life - he who is the Gospel personified.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Country, Art

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• If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother, luxuries.
  [Lat., Avaritiam si tollere vultis, mater ejus est tollenda, luxuries.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Mother, Luxury, Wish

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• The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.

  B. C. Forbes

  Life, Greed, World

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• Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.

  Joseph Addison

  Moving, Pride, Littles

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator”, p.298

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• Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Children, Gambling, Parent

  Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.188

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• Avarice, greed, concupiscence and so forth are all based on the mathematical truism that the more you get, the more you have. The remark of that it is more blessed to give than to receive is based on the human truth that the more you give away in love, the more you are. It is not just for the sake of other people that tells us to give rather than get, but for our own sakes too.

  Frederick Buechner

  Blessed, People, Giving

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Mar 27, 2014

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• Nobody can fight properly and boldly for the faith if he clings to a fear of being stripped of earthly possessions.

  Peter Damian

  Christian, Fighting, Possession

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

  Edmund Pendleton

  Battle, Principles, Avarice Greed

  Edmund Pendleton (1967). “The Letters and Papers of Edmund Pendleton, 1734-1803”

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• An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice.

  Agnes Repplier

  Dream, Appreciation, Thinking

  Agnes Repplier (1893). “Essays in Idleness”, Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin

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