Avarice Quotes
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Eternal joy can never be taken from God's people. Therefore ambition, restlessness, and avarice can be put away for the first time as we rest more and more in the work of the Son of God.
Michael Horton -
Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice; whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born.
William Shenstone
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It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
Seneca the Younger -
Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.
Paul Eldridge -
Avarice is the miser's dream, as fame is the poet's.
William Hazlitt -
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
Seneca the Younger -
Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty.
Edmund Pendleton -
There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
Jonathan Swift