Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty. – Minna Antrim
Avarice is the vice of declining years. – George Bancroft
Greed is all right, by the way I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself. – Ivan F. Boesky
So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron
I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo; your time has come and gone. Its time for change in America. – William Jefferson Clinton
Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance. – Charles Caleb Colton
From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is far beyond all it can attain. Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned. – Emile Durkheim
The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever. – Anatole France
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. – Erich Fromm
If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too. – Thomas Fuller
Avarice is the sphincter of the heart. – Matthew Green
The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit. – Horace
Avarice, the spur of industry. – David Hume
Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it. – Samuel Johnson
For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still. – John Maynard Keynes
You show me a capitalist, and Ill show you a bloodsucker. – Malcolm X
It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice. – Michel de Montaigne
To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom. – William Penn
