Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.

The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

Great wants proceed from great wealth; but they are undutiful children, for they sink wealth down to poverty.

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.

Riches with their wicked inducements increase; nevertheless, avarice is never satisfied.

I gotta die with money cuz i wasn't born with it

Avarice fills its purse at the expense of its belly.

You have to remove your human sentiment when it comes to greed and the accumulation of wealth.

The love for money is only one among many.

I know of no other country where love of money has such a grip on men's hearts or where stronger scorn is expressed for the theory of permanent equality of property

The cursed hunger for gold. -Auri sacra fames

Avarice increases with the increasing pile of gold.

The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused.

The methods that help a man acquire a fortune are the very ones that keep him from enjoying it.

Who is the covetous man? One for whom plenty is not enough.

Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride of one will offend the pride of another, but to the favor of the covetous bring money, and nothing is denied.

Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.

A broker is a man who runs your fortune into a shoestring.

You can't take anything with you. So I don't understand this whole psychotic area of greed, I don't get it.

The miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct from its living form.

The lust for affluence in contemporary society has become psychotic; it has completely lost touch with reality.

For avarice begins where poverty ends.