Greedy folk hae lang airms. [ Scotch Proverb ]

Greedy misers rail at sordid misers. [ Helvetius ]

Autumn is the harvest of greedy death. [ Juvenal ]

To a greedy-eating horse a short halter. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The greedy sea is destruction to the sailors. [ Horace ]

Those who are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit. [ Plutarch ]

He is greedy of life who is not willing to die when the world is perishing around him. [ Seneca ]

Old men are always jealous: they are like the greedy child who wants the cake it can not eat. [ A. Ricard ]

Of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested; it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it is because men hate those from whom they can expect nothing. The greedy misers rail at sordid misers. [ Helvetius ]

There is a hand that has no heart in it, there is a claw or paw, a flipper or fin, a bit of wet cloth to take hold of, a piece of unbaked dough on the cook's trencher, a cold clammy thing we recoil from, or greedy clutch with the heat of sin, which we drop as a burning coal. What a scale from the talon to the horn of plenty, is this human palmleaf! Sometimes it is what a knifeshaped, thin-bladed tool we dare not grasp, or like a poisonous thing we shake off, or unclean member, which, white as it may look, we feel polluted by! [ C. A. Bartol ]