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Sometimes in life, as in literature, people get their just desserts. The greedy man loses everything because he cannot resist seeking more riches.
— Elise Blackwell
It is greed and laziness and selfishness, not hunger or weariness or cold, that take the dignity out of a man, and make him look mean.
— George MacDonald
Our hearts clearly see our own interests but they are completely blind to other people's interests
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
The covetous man is always poor.
— Claudius Claudianus
Animals are neither gods nor fiends, but men in their way without the lust and greed of man.
— Robert E. Howard
The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
— Herman Melville
Fascinated by the glitter of gain, man gazes at the Medusa-like face of greed and stands petrified.
— Manly P. Hall
Our stupidity has turned the world into a hand grenade. Our greed has pulled the pin.
— Grant Morrison
And there can be no end to greed because man, by his very exclusive human nature, is pathologically insatiable.
— Mariano Ngan
We're sorry. It's not us. It's the monster. The bank isn't a man. The bank isn't like a man.Yes, but the bank is only made of men. — John Steinbeck
A big man is always accused of gluttony, whereas a wizened or osseous man can eat like a refugee at every meal, and no one ever notices his greed.
— Robertson Davies
Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The source of evil is desire, greed, and anger.
— Aleksandra Layland
What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice.
— Sarah Josepha Hale
The man who pets a lion may tame it, but the man who coddles the body makes it ravenous.
— John Climacus
How shrunk, how dwindled, in our timesCreation's mighty seed -
For Man has broke the Fellowship
With murder, lust, and greed. — Margaret Atwood
Man's greed to obtain something for nothing has never yet been able to content itself with a moderate profit.
— Will C. Barnes
If they succeed, it will not matter if Man becomes immortal.He will have nothing to live for. — James Edwin Gunn
The miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct from its living form.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty.
— Thomas Adams
Question: What do you get the man who has everything? Answer: a concious. That guy is so greedy.
— Demitri Martin
When a man becomes old, his greed becomes young: sleep grows heavy at the time of morning.
— Saib Tabrizi
Cardinal Mazarin was a great knave, but no great man; much more cunning than able; scandalously false and dirtily greedy.
— Lord Chesterfield
Though statisticians in our time have never kept the score, Man wants a great deal here below and Woman even more.
— James Thurber
The must have it now mentality, was man's first step into the gorging of his natural home.
— Lotte Hass
The covetous man is ever in want.
— Horace
Ambition and thirst for power have a part but greed and greed alone is the reason for a man wanting to swell his ward.
— Charles Ranlett Flint
Greed is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things,
— Thomas Aquinas
Greed makes one want to get something he/she has not worked for
— Sunday Adelaja
One man's greed is another man's tragedy.
— B.B. Reid
Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the fumes of charcoal.
— Charles Dickens
Greed nibbled every man, and strict "rules" could be bent if opportunity walked past and winked suggestively enough. Mat
— Robert Jordan
Greed may do your bidding, but death serves no man.
— Leigh Bardugo
How shall the love of God be understood by those who have been nurtured in sight only of the greed of man?
— Jacob A. Riis
A covetous man's penny is a stone.
— Bill Vaughan