Greed Quotes and Quotations
He who is greedy is always in want. No gain satisfies a greedy mind. Ambition if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others. You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims. Greed lessens what is gathered. We risk all in being too greedy. Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear. Pillars are fallen at thy feet Fanes quiver in the air A prostrate city is thy seat And thou alone art there. On what strange stuff Ambition feeds! The greedy man is incontent with a whole world set before him. For greed, all nature is too little. Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.
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