Quotes about Avarice

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Loan sharking may mean investment and immediate solutions but desperate loan sharks, who are short of cash, abuse your r — Angelica Hopes
Cal opened another cabinet and removed a bottle of anti-inflammatory tablets, placing them on the table in front of her — Lisa Clark O'Neill
Things joined by profit, when pressed by misfortune and danger, will cast each other aside. — Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
This was the time when the rush for the spoils filled a corner of the forest with the yelping of hounds, the cracking of — Émile Zola, La Curée
Corruption,' Jordan Belfort believes, 'is endemic to human being. I mean, even men in monasteries - where enticement is — Antonella Gambotto-Burke, Mouth
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. — Socrates
Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves. — Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Well, there are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. Then there are — Lillian Hellman, The Little Foxes
They listen to the music of idiots and amuse themselves with the sordid miseries of their businesses. They are not the t — Lou Reed, The Raven
Take taking from those that give & nobody anywhere will need any more such gifts. — Kenneth Patchen, Collected Poems
Avarice is opposed to nobility.It believes that by robbing many of all they have, that it (greed) is cloaked in the nobi — Justin K. McFarlane Beau
The avarice, the hunger for materialistic possessions and the dependency upon alcohol had gradually become stronger and — Sue Fortin, Closing In
Descending the endless stairs for the sixth time, Mr. Lecky thought of all the goods those closed doors hid. Fantastic w — James Gould Cozzens, Castaway
Now there was great rejoicing at the rumor of Alderic's quest, for all folk knew that he was a cautious man, and they de — Lord Dunsany, Monster Mix
Avarice is patriotic! — William Donaldson
It is no exaggeration to say that the rich own most of what there is that is not nailed down. — Robert Paul Wolff