The covetous man is always poor.
All of the things that the bible warns you of being: jealous, covetous, murderous, selfish, etc. , that's kind of how humans are.
The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, but to have them; and starves himself in the midst of plenty, and most unnaturally cheats and robs himself of that which is his own; and makes a hard shift, to be as poor and miserable with a great estate, as any man can be without it.
City of rest! - as it seems to our modern senses, - how is it possible that so busy, so pitiless and covetous a life as history shows us, should have gone to the making and the fashioning of Venice!
Be thrifty, but not covetous.
The covetous are always in want.
the truly covetous have never enough!
The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.
The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty.
A circle cannot fill a triangle, so neither can the whole world, if it were to be compassed, the heart of man; a man may as easily fill a chest with grace as the heart with gold. The air fills not the body, neither doth money the covetous mind of man.
A covetous man's penny is a stone.
The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.
The covetous man is ever in want.
He is the least in want who is the least covetous.
Covetous men need money least, yet they most affect it; but prodigals, who need it most have the least regard for it.
The covetous person lives as if the world were made altogether for him, and not he for the world.
Not to be covetous, is money; not to be a purchaser, is a revenue.
Form no covetous desire, so that the demon of greediness may not deceive thee, and the treasure of the world may not be tasteless to thee.
One be covetous when he has little, much or anything between, for covetousness comes from the heart, not from the circumstances of life.
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
