Claudian Quotes

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all.

Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.

He who is greedy is always in want.

Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. More and more and more.

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.

I suppose I was always very greedy. I was never happy with what we had, and I was always looking for new opportunities.

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

I always want more.

There's nothing bloody wrong with wanting it at all.

I don't think I have ever been completely satisfied, which is probably the right way to say it. I always felt like I wanted more.

Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.

Its really most remarkable how the human race is so seldom satisfied with what its got. Give a man the world and he's pining for the moon.

The poor lack much, the greedy everything.

The covetous are always in want.

You want what you want, whether or not you think you can have it.

To have and to want more that is life.

Much wants more and loses all.

Want! You must want something. What do you want?

All I see is people out there who are hungry for more.

I think that what people always want is what they don't have a lot of...

Want is misery.

If you have everything, then you don't want to go on. It's the lacking that makes you search for something better.