Avarice Quotes

Avarice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end?

old age

Avarice, sphincter of the heart.

What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice.

Avarice, the spur of industry.

Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition.

Avarice is rarely the vice of youth.