Avarice Quotes

Avarice is the vice of declining years.

Enriched beyond the dreams of any normal person`s avarice, she accumulated possessions with a single-minded lust that calls to mind those ancient Romans who gorged themselves, then vomited so they could gorge again.

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.

Avarice, envy, pride, Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all On Fire.

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

Avarice, the sphincter of the heart.

Avarice, sphincter of the heart.

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us / avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things

Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything