Avarice Quotes

Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most certain wealth of all.

The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end.

Avarice misapprehends itself almost always. There is no passion which more often will miss its aim, nor upon which the present has so much influence to the prejudice of the future.

There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.

Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant expectations; others mistake great future advantages for small present interests.

Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches; and tho' avarice will preserve a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him.

It is not the nature of avarice to be satisfied with anything but money. Every passion that acts upon mankind has a peculiar mode of operation. Many of them are temporary and fluctuating; they admit of cessation and variety. But avarice is a fixed, uniform passion.

A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.

He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in the glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it is that quivering lip, that cold, hating eye, which built magazines and powder-houses.

Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.

When money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind which is called avarice.

Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is.