We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
Franklin D. RooseveltGold 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 DickensOur labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.
VoltaireTag: evil work greed need boredom labor vice want weariness
What win I, if I gain the thing I seek?
A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy.
Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week?
Or sells eternity to get a toy?
For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy?
Or what fond beggar, but to touch the crown,
Would with the sceptre straight be strucken down?
Tag: destruction greed fleeting-possession gain
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The Duke of Dunstable had one-way pockets.
He would walk ten miles in the snow to chisel an orphan out of tuppence.
No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun — for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax — This won't hurt
Hunter S. ThompsonTag: death suicide fun greed depression bombs
Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
Frederick DouglassTag: greed desire material nourishment
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If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gogh, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.
Jasper FfordeTag: humor art hate intolerance greed buildings louis-armstrong
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
SocratesTag: contentment greed gluttony avarice
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Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough.
Janwillem van de WeteringTag: greed
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