The covetous man. [ Horace ]

Covetousness breaks the bag. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Covetousness, which is Idolatry. [ Bible ]

Covetousness brings nothing home. [ Proverb ]

When all the sins are old in us.
And go upon crutches, covetousness
Does but lie in her cradle. [ Decker ]

Covetousness is generally incurable. [ Proverb ]

Covetousness often starves other vices. [ Proverb ]

Envy and covetousness are never satisfied. [ Proverb ]

When all sins grow old, covetousness is young. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The soul of man is infinite in what it covets. [ Ben Jonson ]

Those that much covet are with gain so fond,
That what they have not, that which they possess,
They scatter and unloose it from their bond.
And so, by hoping more, they have but less. [ William Shakespeare ]

Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel. [ Proverb ]

We never desire earnestly what we desire in reason. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Covetousness is ever attended with solicitude and anxiety. [ Benjamin Franklin ]

Charity gives itself rich; covetousness hoards itself poor. [ German Proverb ]

What there are pride and covetousness in a man, two devils fight. [ Proverb ]

He deservedly loses his own property, who covets that of another. [ Pha?drus ]

Youth is covetous of honour; let not this covetousness seduce thee. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, but to have them. [ Tillotson ]

Riches have made mair men covetous than covetousness has made men rich. [ Scotch Proverb ]

Covetousness, as well as prodigality, brings a man to a morsel of bread. [ Proverb ]

Riches have made more covetous men, than covetousness hath made rich men. [ Proverb ]

We think poverty to be infinitely desirable before the torments of covetousness. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

Covetousness swells the principal to no purpose, and lessens the use to all purposes. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water and yet thirsty. [ Rev. T. Adams ]

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

When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness. [ William Shakespeare ]

Why are we so blind? That which we improve, we have, that which we hoard is not for ourselves. [ Madame Deluzy ]

Covetousness, like jealousy, when it has once taken root, never leaves a man but with his life. [ Thomas Hughes ]

Those who give not till they die show that they would not then if they could keep it any longer. [ Bishop Hall ]

Covetousness, like a candle ill made, smothers the splendor of a happy fortune in its own grease. [ F. Osborn ]

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

The things which belong to others please us more, and that which is ours, is more pleasing to others. [ Syrus ]

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

Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness. [ Cham fort ]

Poor in abundance, famished at a feast, man's grief is but his grandeur in disguise, and discontent is immortality. [ Young ]

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

Some men are so covetous, as if they were to live forever; and others so profuse, as if they were to die the next moment. [ Aristotle ]

Take heed and beware of covetousness; for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. [ Bible ]

Covetousness, by a greediness of getting more, deprives itself of the true end of getting; it loses the enjoyment of what it has got. [ Sprat ]

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 ]

The only sovereign remedy is to give Christ the pre-eminence in our hearts; for then we shall undervalue all temporal things in comparison of Him. [ Fisher's Catechism ]

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

That plenty should produce either Covetousness or prodigality is a perversion of providence; and yet the generality of men are the worse for their riches. [ William Penn ]

The character of covetousness is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence. [ Pope ]

Frugality is good if liberality be joined with it. The first is leaving off superfluous expenses; the last is bestowing them to the benefit of others that need. The first without the last begets covetousness; the last without the first begets prodigality. [ William Penn ]