Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
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Thus did I excite in him a fierce craving, and incline him with the inclination of gobbling and greed, and he became greedy. But he did not know he had fallen into the trap.
‘To obtain thy livelihood make use of every means;
Do not be satisfied with any condition,
But be equal to any enormity;
For man becomes incapable,
there is no doubt about it.’
THE MAQAMA OF BAGHDAD
Covetous men’s chests are rich, not they.
“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”
―
Roald Dahl
He has an oar in every man’s boat, and a finger in every pie.
There were three sailors of Bristol city Who took a boat and went to sea. But first with beef and captain's biscuits And pickled pork they loaded she. There was gorging Jack and guzzling Jimmy, And the youngest he was little Billee. Now when they got as far as the Equator They'd nothing left but one split pea. W. M. Thackeray: Little Billee.
“A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.” Siddhārtha Gautama Buddha.
“The Yen Buddhists are the richest religious sect in the universe. They hold that the accumulation of money is a great evil and a burden to the soul. They therefore, regardless of personal hazard, see it as their unpleasant duty to acquire as much as possible in order to reduce the risk to innocent people.”
― Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad
FOTO – IZZY’S PLACE IN BONGIL BONGIL FOREST
“Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.” ― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
* It is wrong to judge by appearances. Despite his expression, which was that of a piglet having a bright idea, and his mode of speech, which might put you in mind of a small, breathless, neurotic but ridiculously expensive dog, Mr Horsefry might well have been a kind, generous and pious man. In the same way, the man climbing out of your window in a stripy jumper, a mask and a great hurry might merely be lost on the way to a fancy-dress party, and the man in the wig and robes at the focus of the courtroom might only be a transvestite who wandered in out of the rain. Snap judgements can be so unfair.”
― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
“Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough.” ― Janwillem van de Wetering
Greed’s worst point is its ingratitude. Seneca
You’ll never change a pig into a sheep unless it has a sheep as mother.
Noh care how boar hog try
fi hide under sheep wool,
‘im grunt always betray ‘im.
Don’t care how much
disguise someone puts on,
their true self will surface.
Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away. Edward Dahlberg
The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 – 1954), Saturday 26 May 1934,
If heaven above lets fall a plum, open your mouth.
Ehera thakirio
Clear out of the ‘thakirio’
‘Thakirio’ is the place the Kikuyu hut where the wife stays when distributing the food to the family
Mind your own business
Poverty is in want of much, avarice of everything.
http://masterrussian.com/proverbs/russian_proverbs.htm
La rabia de la tamalera: que otra se le ponga enfrente
What makes the tamal-vendor fly into a rage? Another tamal-vendor setting up shop in front of her?
We need our space.
http://www.spanish-learning-corner.com/mexican-proverbs.html
down by the seashore, where life is a little easier!
“The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach – waiting for a gift from the sea.”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Man is the only trained animal who expects his reward before he does his trick.
~Robert Brault, http://www.robertbrault.com
http://www.quotegarden.com/human.html
You cannot train a horse with shouts and expect it to obey a whisper.
– Dagobert D. Runes
Stretch your hands as far as they reach, grab all you can grab. (Yoruba)
http://resourcepage.gambia.dk/proverbsall.htm
No one is so tall that she never needs to stretch, and no one is so short that she never needs to stoop.
Danish
http://www.special-dictionary.com/proverbs/keywords/stretch/2.htm
An inch of time is an inch of gold, but an inch of time cannot be purchased for an inch of gold.
(Chinese)
http://people.wku.edu/haiwang.yuan/China/proverbs/y.html
Gold is the dust that blinds all eyes.
http://www.brownielocks.com/folksayings.html
In every drop of water, there is a story of life.”
~ Leena Arif
http://www.tranquilwaters.uk.com/water.html
The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach – waiting for a gift from the sea.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Poverty is in want of much, avarice of everything.
http://masterrussian.com/proverbs/russian_proverbs.htm
As we became subjects of King Alcohol, shivering denizens of his mad realm, the chilling vapour that is loneliness settled down. It thickened, ever becoming blacker. Some of us sought out sordid places, hoping to find understanding companionship and approval. Momentarily we did — then would come oblivion and the awful awakening to face the hideous Four Horsemen — Terror, Bewilderment, Frustration, Despair.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, The Big Book
An idler and a sluggard are as different as a gourmand and a glutton.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
Proverbs 13:4
The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.
Gluttony Food was a communal resource, so gluttony was frowned on. A greedy person was said to have the mouth of the voracious kahawai fish,
http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/korero-taiao-sayings-from-nature/page-2
The Dreamings are our ancestors, no matter if they are fish, birds, men, women, animals, wind or rain. It was these Dreamings that made our Law. All things in our country have Law, they have ceremony and song, and they have people who are related to them
(c) Mussolini Harvey
Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find – nothing.”
― Aesop
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In the fall, when you see geese heading south for the winter fly along in v formation, one might consider what science has discovered as to why geese fly this way.
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I eat like a vulture. Unfortunately the resemblance doesn’t end there.
Groucho Marx
“God help thee, old man, thy thoughts have created a creature in thee; and he whose intense thinking thus makes him a Prometheus; a vulture feeds upon that heart forever; the vulture the very creature he creates.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
G. K. Chesterton
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
– Robert A. Heinlein
“Take for instance a man driven to incessant work by a sense of deep insecurity and loneliness; or another one driven by ambition, or greed for money. In all these cases the person is the slave of a passion, and his activity is in reality a “passivity” because he is driven; he is the sufferer, not the “actor”. On the other hand a man sitting quiet and contemplating, with no purpose or aim except that of experiencing himself and his oneness with the world, is considered to be “passive”, because he is not “doing” anything. In reality, this attitude of concentrated meditation is the highest activity there is, an activity of the soul, which is possible only under the condition of inner freedom and independence”
― Erich Fromm
Character is simply habit long continued.
Plutarch
http://realisticrecovery.wordpress.com/2009/02/21/list-of-character-defects/
gluttony, greed – Wanting and taking too much: food, sex, time, money, comfort, leisure, material possessions, attention, security. Acquiring things (material things, relationships, attention) at the expense of others.
laziness, procrastination, sloth – Not doing as much as is reasonable for us to do. Putting things off repeatedly. Not carrying our own load as much as we are able. Letting others provide things for us that we ought to get for ourselves.
THE OLD PROVERBIAL RECOVERY 