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  • It's more blessed to give than to receive - especially kittens.

    Bible   Jesus   Blessed  
  • In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.

    "The Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne".
  • Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

  • Avarice is the vice of declining years.

    Years   Greed   Vices  
    George Bancroft (1845). “History of the United States: From the Discovery of the American Continent, to the End of the Late War”, p.130
  • The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

  • For avarice begins where poverty ends.

  • ... a bad attitude, that the love of money is the root of all evil and the rich are evil and greedy and all that stuff. It’s basically socialism and communism.

    "Parents still tell kids to save money. That's really obsolete". Interview with Nastassia Arendse, citizen.co.za. March 8, 2017.
  • Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.

    Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.319, Macmillan
  • Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

    Effort   Greed   Needs  
    Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.121, Open Road Media
  • Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things

    Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.17, Courier Corporation
  • Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.

    Home   Pride   Envy  
  • Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

    Stendhal (1950*). “Stendhal on Love”
  • 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.

    Years   Liberty   Littles  
    John Maynard Keynes (1932). “Essays in persuasion”
  • The lack of money is the root of all evil.

    Funny   Bible   Sarcastic  
    Mark Twain, John Sutton Tuckey (1980). “The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man”, p.337, Univ of California Press
  • Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.

    Greed   Want   Poverty  
    "Maxims". 441,
  • You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.

    Hope   Greed   Political  
  • To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.

    William Penn (1726). “A Collection of the Works of William Penn: To which is Prefixed a Journal of His Life, with Many Original Letters and Papers Not Before Published”, p.832
  • Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

  • So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.

    Thinking   Greed   Vices  
    'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 1, st. 216
  • Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.

  • There is no such thing as material covetousness. All covetousness is spiritual. ...Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.

    Spiritual   Greed   Want  
    Mark Twain (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.202, Univ of California Press
  • Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough.

    Greed   Mouths   Demon  
    Janwillem Van De Wetering (2003). “Just a Corpse at Twilight”, p.118, Soho Press
  • Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.

    "Wall Street". www.imdb.com. 1987.
  • Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

    Heart   Pride   Men  
  • He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

    Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”
  • 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

    Wall   Passion   Ambition  
    Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.262
  • Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty.

    Edmund Pendleton (1967). “The Letters and Papers of Edmund Pendleton, 1734-1803”
  • Yet avarice is numbered among the sins, but stupidity omitted.

  • Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as poverty of what it has not.

  • Avarice, greed, concupiscence and so forth are all based on the mathematical truism that the more you get, the more you have. The remark of that it is more blessed to give than to receive is based on the human truth that the more you give away in love, the more you are. It is not just for the sake of other people that tells us to give rather than get, but for our own sakes too.

    Blessed   People   Giving  
    FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Mar 27, 2014
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