The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulcher of all his other passions, as they successively decay. But, unlike other tombs, it is enlarged by repletion, and strengthened by age.
Also attributed to: Colton
The miser's avarice outlives his other passions and only grows stronger with age.
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Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children; and like Priam, survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit t…
— Charles Caleb Colton
Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind.…
— Samuel Johnson
Avarice isolates man from the great universe and the holy God, deadens the sensibilities to the highest joys, and shuts …
— Dr. Thomas
Useless. The generality of mankind create to themselves a thousand needless anxieties by a vain search after a thing tha…
— Dr. Thomas
Poverty wants some things, luxury many, avarice all things.
— Cowley
Jesus told a parable about a rich man who had a plentiful harvest and decided to tear down his barns and build larger on…
— Jesus Christ
