George Herbert Quotes

The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.

And plenty makes us poor.

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.

The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.

The more we have the less we own.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

There is never enough where nought is left.

There is always greed. There is nothing wrong with greed.

All amassing of wealth or hoarding of wealth above and beyond one's legitimate needs is theft.

Perhaps a day might come when there would be at last be enough to go round

… an avalanche of avarice

How unfortunate and how narrowing a thing it is for a man to have wealth who makes a god of it instead of a servant.

Once a man has begun to accumulate money, it is unnatural to stop. He actually gets in a state where he wants more and more..

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed

… a creed of greed

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive nature away from the heart of man.

.... the forces of greed

If I hadn't given my money away, I'd have had more than anyone else on the planet.

Avarice is a deadly sin.

There is something about prosperity that brings out the worst in some people.

The erroneous economic belief in scarcity leads directly to the mistaken theological belief that God does not want us to be rich. After all, in a world of scarce physical resources, a person could achieve personal wealth only by taking wealth from another - something that a truly benevolent, loving God would never allow.