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Greed Quotes
Showing: 11 - 20 Greed Quotes of 33
Care clings to wealth: the thirst for more Grows as our fortunes grow.
A covetous man's penny is a stone.
Extreme avarice misapprehends itself almost always; there is no passion which more often misses its aim, nor upon which the present has so much influence to the prejudice of the future.
Avarice is a cursed vice: offer a man enough gold, and he will part with his own small hoard of food, however great his hunger.
People who are greedy have extraordinary capacities for waste-they must, they take in too much.
The covetous man fares worse with his passion than the poor, and the jealous man than the cuckold.
I could not possibly count the gold-digging ruses of women, Not if I had ten mouths, not if I had ten tongues.
Though avarice will prevent a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.
To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.
Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as poverty of what it has not.
Violence Quote
Violence never settles anything right: apart from injuring your own soul, it injures the best cause. It lingers on long after the object of hate has disappeared from the scene to plague the lives of those who have employed it against their foes.
Funny Quote
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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