Arthur Guiterman Quotes

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

No lusting after your neighbor's house - or wife or servant or maid or ox or donkey. Don't set your heart on anything that is your neighbor's.

What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.

All some folks want is their fair share and yours.

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.

Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

What you want, when you want it. As opposed to everything you could ever want, even when you don't.

The more men value money the less they value virtue.

These are the meats to abstain from- others' wealth, others' wives, slander, envy, covetousness and pride.

I don't touch anything I don't deserve.

I love fighting. I want to fight, but there are principles in this game. You've got to have morals. I'm not just going to fight fights to fight to get nowhere.

I rarely indulge in sweet things but when I do I do not like to share.

I hold myself to a high standard.

Possession hinders enjoyment. It merely gives you the right to keep things for or from others, and thus you gain more enemies than friends.

If you want something, if you take it for your own, you'll always be taking it from someone else.

It's in my nature to feel, 'I could be this! This could be mine!'

The property of others is always more inviting than our own; and that which we ourselves possess is most pleasing to others.

Sufficient to say, greed is a deadly deed. You shall not covet your neighbor's goods.

One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting everyone else to give it up.

What I want is not to want what isn't mine

If you want to dig, if you want to pry, do it on your time, but I'm going to be a woman of dignity.

It's a big challenge for me to keep my integrity and some of my privacy intact.

Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.

Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.