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| Avarice and fidelity cannot dwell together in the same house. Grimm’s Fairy Tales. | 1 |
| Avarice blinds our eyes. | 2 |
| Avarice bursts the bag. French. | 3 |
| Avarice disposes men to fraud. | 4 |
| Avarice increases with wealth. Italian. | 5 |
| Avarice is always poor, but poor by her own fault. Johnson. | 6 |
| Avarice is both knave and fool. Greville. | 7 |
| Avarice is insatiable, and is always pushing for more. L’Estrange. | 8 |
| Avarice is never satisfied. | 9 |
| Avarice is the basest and most selfish of human passions. | 10 |
| Avarice is the parent of all wickedness. Claudianus. | 11 |
| Avarice is the parent of evil deeds, but frugality is the sure guardian of our virtues. Ancient Brahmin. | 12 |
| Avarice loses all in seeking to gain all. La Fontaine. | 13 |
| Avarice rarely finishes its day without weeping. La Fontaine. | 14 |
| Avarice sheds a blasting influence over the fairest and sweetest of mankind. Washington. | 15 |
| Gold and silver were mingled with dirt till avarice parted them. | 16 |
| Great honors and avarice fly one another. | 17 |
| He would sell even his share of the sun. Italian. | 18 |
| If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother luxury. Cicero. | 19 |
| It is not want but abundance that makes avarice. | 20 |
| No vice like avarice. | 21 |
| Pour an ocean of melted gold down the throat of avarice, and it would still cry “Give, give.” C. C. Baldwin’s “Moral Maxims” | 22 |
| The avaricious man is always in want. Latin. | 23 |
| The older the colder; the more avaricious, the more vicious. German. | 24 |
The wretch who avarice bids to pinch and spare,
Starves, steals, pilfers to enrich an heir. Franklin. | 25 |
| When all other sins are old, avarice is still young. French. | 26 |
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