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Greed QuotesFamous Greed quotes by popular authors such as Marcus Annaeus Seneca, Aeschylus, Robert Herrick, Claudian, Virgil and others.
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[highlight-text]Not greedy of filthy lucre.
Bible
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[highlight-text]More than enough is too much.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Success has ruined many a man.
Benjamin Franklin
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[highlight-text]Ask the gods nothing excessive.
Aeschylus
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[highlight-text]Greed lessens what is gathered.
Arab Proverb
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[highlight-text]The covetous man is always poor.
Claudian
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[highlight-text]No gain satisfies a greedy mind.
Latin Proverb
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[highlight-text]We risk all in being too greedy.
Jean de la Fontaine
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[highlight-text]He who is greedy is always in want.
Horace
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[highlight-text]For greed all nature is too little.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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[highlight-text]Who covets more is evermore a slave.
Robert Herrick
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[highlight-text]On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!
Eliza Cook
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[highlight-text]Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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[highlight-text]Greed like the love of comfort is a kind of fear.
Cyril Connolly
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[highlight-text]Ambition if it feeds at all does so on the ambition of others.
Susan Sontag
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[highlight-text]The greedy man is incontent with a whole world set before him.
Sa'di
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[highlight-text]Accursed thirst for gold! what dost thou not compel mortals to do?
Virgil
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[highlight-text]You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.
Harriet Woods
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[highlight-text]Pillars are fallen at thy feet Fanes quiver in the air A prostrate city is thy seat And thou alone art there.
Lydia Maria Child
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[highlight-text]Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
Erich Fromm