1.
Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things
Benjamin Franklin
2.
Yet avarice is numbered among the sins, but stupidity omitted.
E. B. Farnum
3.
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
Stendhal
4.
The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
Pliny the Elder
5.
Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty.
Edmund Pendleton
6.
To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.
William Penn
7.
In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.
Michel de Montaigne