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You may as well bid an elephant fly in the air, as a covetous man live by faith. — Thomas Watson

If you are covetous, you are a prisoner: If you are greedy, you will never be filled. — Idries Shah

Be thrifty, but not covetous. — George Herbert

The covetous man is always poor. — Claudius Claudianus

The truly covetous have never enough! — Delarivier Manley

The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all. — Herman Melville

The covetous person lives as if the world were made altogether for him, and not he for the world. — Robert South

He is the least in want who is the least covetous. — Publilius Syrus

World creation should be an effort of great and covetous love. — Micah R. Sisk

There is no disaster greater than not being content; There is no misfortune greater than being covetous. — Lao-Tzu

All of the things that the bible warns you of being: jealous, covetous, murderous, selfish, etc., that's kind of how humans are. — Henry Rollins

One be covetous when he has little, much or anything between, for covetousness comes from the heart, not from the circumstances of life. — Charles Caldwell Ryrie

The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly. — Ben Jonson

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

Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous. — Thomas Browne

That the covetous wants that which he has, as well as that which he has not; because he is master of nothing, and is the slave of his own wealth. — John Calvin

Covetous ambition, thinking all too little which presently it hath, supposeth itself to stand in need of that which it hath not. — Walter Raleigh

The world itself is too small for the covetous. — Seneca The Younger

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him. — Francis Bacon

A covetous man's penny is a stone. — Bill Vaughan

The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man. — Du Mu

Speaking generally, men are ungrateful, fickle, hypocritical, fearful odanger and covetous ogain. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Not to be covetous, is money; not to be a purchaser, is a revenue. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Form no covetous desire, so that the demon of greediness may not deceive thee, and the treasure of the world may not be tasteless to thee. — Zoroaster

Who is the covetous man? One for whom plenty is not enough. — Saint Basil

The covetous map explores the whole world in pursuit of a subsistence, and fate is close at his heels. — Saadi

The covetous man is ever in want. — Horace

To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may. — Henry Ward Beecher

The covetous are always in want. — Horace

The covetous person is full of fear; and he or she who lives in fear will ever be a slave. — Horace

An unvirtuous citizenry tend to elect representatives who will pander to their covetous lustings. — Ezra Taft Benson

Covetous men need money least, yet they most affect it; but prodigals, who need it most have the least regard for it. — Alexander Wilson

A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian. — Jonathan Edwards

The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty. — Thomas Adams

The covetous man is like a camel with a great hunch on his back; heaven's gate must be made Higher and broader, or he will hardly get in. — Thomas Adams