AVARICE QUOTES III

quotations about avarice

Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children, and like Priam survives them all.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


But Avarice is like the hungry grave,
Insatiable, remorseless I and the wretch
Who there stands craving is her vilest slave.

JOSEPH JAMES

"Genora; or the Grave Robber"


True it is that avarice is rich, modesty starves.

PHAEDRUS

Fables


He was always ready to pick a halfpenny out of the dirt with his teeth.

PETRONIUS

Satyricon


Avarice starves its possessor to fatten those who come after, and who are eagerly awaiting the demise of the accumulator.

FULKE GREVILLE

attributed, Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical


Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them;
Blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.

JUVENAL

Satires


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

Essays on Men and Manners