Samuel Johnson Quotes

Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.

For avarice begins where poverty ends.

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

There is only one vice, which may be found in life with as strong features, and as high a colouring as needs be employed by any satyrist or comic poet; and that is AVARICE.

Avarice is the most oppose of all characters to that of God Almighty, whose alone it is to give and not receive.

When money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind which is called avarice.

Avarice is the miser's dream, as fame is the poet's.

Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate! Cursed when for soft, indulgent leisures, He lays for us the pillows straight.

Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.

Money does not sate Avarice, but stimulates it.

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

It is not the nature of avarice to be satisfied with anything but money. Every passion that acts upon mankind has a peculiar mode of operation. Many of them are temporary and fluctuating; they admit of cessation and variety. But avarice is a fixed, uniform passion.

Avarice, or the desire of gain, is a universal passion which operates at all times, at all places, and upon all persons.

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

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts!

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

Avarice misapprehends itself almost always. There is no passion which more often will miss its aim, nor upon which the present has so much influence to the prejudice of the future.

Covetousness teaches people to be cruel and crafty, industrious and evil, full of care and malice; and after all this, it is for no good to itself, for it dares not spend those heaps of treasure which it has snatched.

Avarice increases with the increasing pile of gold.

It is of the nobility of man's soul that he is insatiable: for he hath a benefactor so prone to give, that he delighteth in us for asking. Do not your inclinations tell you that the WORLD is yours? Do you not covet all? Do you not long to have it; to enjoy it; to overcome it? To what end do men gather riches, but to multiply more? Do they not like Pyrrhus the King of Epire, add house to house and lands to lands, that they may get it all?

The covetous man is ever in want.

If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.