(31 quotes found)
“He who fears death has already lost the life he covets”
Cato the Censor
“In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I was forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.”
Camille Paglia
“As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.”
Daniel Defoe
“Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.”
William Penn
“Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.”
William Shakespeare
“Who covets more is evermore a slave.”
Robert Herrick
“Be thrifty, but not covetous.”
George Herbert
“I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow [perhaps William Lowndes], who used to say, `Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves.'”
Lord Chesterfield
“None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation”
Charles Caleb Colton
“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
