Greediness Quotes
- A greedy father has thieves for children.~ Serbian Proverb
- A greedy man is always poor.~ Iranian Proverb
- Even thinking about sexual pleasure has its roots in greed.~ Japanese Proverb
- For a greedy man even his tomb is too small.~ Tajikistani Proverb
- For greed all nature is too little.~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
- Greed’s worst point is its ingratitude.~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
- Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.~ Cyril Connolly
- Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.~ Erich Fromm
- Greed is all right, by the way I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself.~ Ivan F. Boesky
- Greediness of getting more, deprives… the enjoyment of what it had got.~ Thomas Sprat
- Greed keeps men forever poor, even the abundance of this world will not make them rich.~ Mongolian Proverb
- Greed lessens what is gathered.~ Arabian Proverb
- Greed will cause pain.~ Taiwanese Proverb
- He is not poor that hath not much, but He who craves much.~ Thomas Fuller
- He who is greedy is always in want.~ Horace
- If you ask for too much at once, you will come home with an empty bag.~ Croatian Proverb
- If you buy things you don’t need, you are stealing from yourself.~ Czechoslovakian Proverb
- If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.~ Thomas Fuller
- Many have too much, but none enough.~ Danish Proverb
- Never drop the bone to catch the shadow.~ Belizean Proverb
- The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.~ Horace
- The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.~ Anatole France
- The big problem is not the haves and the have-nots — it’s the give-nots.~ Arnold H. Glasow
- The greedy man is not content with a whole world set before him.~ Sadi
- The point is that you can’t be too greedy.~ Donald Trump
- The poor lack much, but the greedy more.~ Swiss Proverb
- To do all the talking and not be willing to listen is a form of greed.~ Democritus
- Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.~ Arthur Schopenhauer
- We risk all in being too greedy.~ Jean De La Fontaine
- When all other sins are old, greed still stays young.~ French Proverb
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