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Quotations
On Avarice
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- It is
surely very narrow policy
that supposes money to be the chief good.—Johnson.
- Poverty
is
in want of much,
but avarice of everything.—Publius Syrus.
- There
are
two considerations
which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man—the one is a
perpetual
thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has
already acquired.—Fielding.
O cursed
lust of gold:
when for thy sake
The fool
throws up his
interest in both worlds,
First
starved in this,
then damn'd in that to come.
—Blair.
- Many
have
been ruined by their
fortunes; many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it,
the great have become little, and the little great.—Zimmermann.
- Avarice
is
the vice of declining
years.—George Bancroft.
- The
love
of money is the root
of all evil.—1 Timothy 6:10.
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- The
avaricious man is like the
barren, sandy ground of the desert, which sucks in all the rain and
dews
with greediness, but yields no fruitful herbs or plants for the benefit
of others.—Zeno.
- Avarice
in
old age, is foolish;
for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the
road,
the nearer we approach to our journey's end?—Cicero.
- Poverty
wants some, luxury many,
and avarice all things.—Cowley.
Riches,
like insects,
when conceal'd they lie,
Wait but
for wings, and
in their season fly.
Who sees
pale Mammon
pine amidst his store,
Sees but a
backward steward
for the poor;
This year a
reservoir,
to keep and spare;
The next a
fountain,
spouting thro' his heir
In lavish
streams to
quench a country's thirst,
And men and
dogs shall
drink him till they burst.
—Pope.
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