Covetousness often starves other vices. [ Proverb ]

While the grass grows the steed starves. [ Proverb ]

Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed. [ Pope ]

The miser, poor fool, not only starves his body, but also his own soul. [ Theodore Parker ]

Not to enjoy one's youth, when one is young, is to imitate the miser who starves beside his treasures. [ Mme. Louise Colet ]

Avarice starves its possessor to fatten those who come after, and who are eagerly awaiting the demise of the accumulator. [ Greville ]

Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children, and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it. [ Colton ]