AVARICE

Subjects: Desire, Envy, Gold, Lust, Mammon, Miser, Money, Riches, Selfishness

1. He would skin a flint.—JOHN BERTHELSON
   

2. Not greedy of filthy lucre.—Bible, 1Timothy 3:3
   

3. So for a good old-gentlemanly vice I think I must take up with avarice.—BYRON, Don Juan
   

4. I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow, who used to say, "Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves."—LORD CHESTERFIELD, Letters
   

5. The very suspicion of avarice is to be avoided.—CICERO, De Officiis
   

6. If you would abolish avarice, you must abolish its mother, luxury.—CICERO, De Oratore
   

7. Avarice, envy, pride,
   Three fatal sparks.—DANTE, Inferno
   

8. No man of elder years than fifty
   Should be empowered with lands and gold,
   It turns them shrewd and over-thrifty,
   It makes them cruel and blind and cold.—ARTHUR D. FICKE, Youth and Age
   

9. Avarice and happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted?—FRANKLIN, Poor Richard
   

10. Avarice, sphincter of the heart.—MATTHEW GREEN, The Spleen

11. The covetous man is ever in want.—HORACE, Epistles
    

12. Avarice, the spur of industry.—DAVID HUME, Of Civil Liberty
    

13. Avarice is more opposed to economy than liberality is.—LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims
    

14. Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.—CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE, The Jew of Malta
    

15. Of which all old men sicken,—Avarice.—THOMAS MIDDLETON, The Roaring Girl
    

16. It is not necessity but abun­dance which produces avarice.—MONTAIGNE, Essays
    

17. Counts his sure gains, and hurries back for more.—JAMES MONTGOMERY, The West Indies
    

18. The mishief of grudging and the marring of grasping.—WILLIAM MORRIS, Story of Child Christopher
    

19. He who covets what belongs to another deservedly loses his own.—PHAEDRUS, Fables
    

20. Covetous men's chests are rich, not they.—Proverb
    

21. Grasp all, lose all.—Proverb
    

22. Gold and silver were mingled with dirt, till avarice parted them.—Proverb
    

23. I pledge my allegiance, say the munitions makers and the international hankers, I pledge my allegiance to this flag, that flag, any flag at all, of any country anywhere paying its bills and meeting interest on loans, one and indivisible,
    coming through with cash in payment as stipulated with liberty and justice for all, say the munitions makers and the international bankers.—CARL SANDBURG, The People, Yes
    

24. To greed, all nature is insufficient.—SENECA, Hercules Cletoeus
    

25. You yourself
    Are much condemn'd to have an itching palm.—SHAKESPEARE, Julius Caesar
    

26. Those that much covet are with gain so fond,
    For what they have not, that which they possess
    They scatter and unloose it from their bond,
    And so, by hoping more, they have but less.—SHAKESPEARE, The Rape of Lucrece
    

27. Avarice, ambition, lust, etc., are nothing but species of madness, although not enumerated among diseases.—SPINOZA, Ethics