English Proverb or Saying Quotes

I have lost everything, and I am so poor now that I really cannot afford to let anything worry me.

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.

One seldom recognizes the devil when he is putting his hand on your shoulder.

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.

The Devil invented gambling.

... avaricious to a most infamous degree; needy at the same time, having a numerous family to provide for

Interest is the invention of Satan

As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is, I believe, the worst of all snares.

A scene of misery and gloomy despair of a community of people who have been plunged abruptly from prosperity to a complete want of the most essential things of life.

Anyone who tells you to deny yourself is from Satan.

Solitude is the playfield of Satan.

The devil is no longer looking for an open door in your life. He will take any crack you give him.

Open is the way of Satan; many walk therein.

Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.

The time when I had desire to go to the United States I didn't have a penny. It was in the middle of the depression, you know. I couldn't get as far as Hoboken at that time.

Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.

The devil's voice is sweet to hear.

You and I can be busy, and we take a vacation from work. You can't take a break from being poor. You can't say, 'Hey I've had enough of worrying about money, I'm just going to be rich for a couple of weeks until I've recovered.'

The small Satan left and the great Satan came.

The devil is busy and trying to distort and adulterate the things that are the pure essence of God.

To me, Satan ultimately represents rebellion.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.

How can a man help breaking the law when he don't have money to live on?