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.

The avarice of mankind is insatiable.

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that it may be said to possess him.

Avarice is the vice of declining years.

So for a good old gentlemanly vice I think I must take up with avarice.