Quotations on avarice

If you would abolish avarice, you must abolish its mother, luxury.
-Cicero
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.
-Cicero
Avarice is the vice of declining years.
-George Bancroft
The avaricious man is like the barren sandy ground of the desert which sucks in all the rain and dew with greediness, but yields no fruitful herbs or plants for the benefit of others.
-Zeno
Avarice is always poor.
-Samuel Johnson
Poverty wants some things, luxury many, avarice all things.
-Abraham Cowley
Avarice increases with the increasing pile of gold.
-Juvenal