Quotes related to Ecclesiastes 5:10
The prosperity we enjoy shapes both the questions we ask and the answers we embrace.
- Carolyn Custis James
There are two things men have never been able to satisfy: their curiosity and their greed.
- George Lucas
Money, we know, will fetch anything and command the service of any man.
- George Washington
When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.
- George Eliot
That kind of so-called housekeeping where they have six Bibles and no cork-screw.
- Mark Twain
They spent all week saving pennies and went out Saturdays to spend fifty bucks in three hours.
- Jack Kerouac
And he had a nice home in Ohio with wife, daughter, Christmas tree, two cars, garage, lawn, lawnmower, but he couldn't enjoy any of it because he really wasn't free. It was sadly true.
- Jack Kerouac
Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.
- Alice Walker
I guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war.
- Lily Tomlin
It was the money from 'Star Wars' and 'Jaws' that allowed the theaters to build their multiplexes, which allowed an opening up of screens.
- George Lucas
The biggest human temptation is... to settle for too little.
- Thomas Merton
Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
- Catherine of Siena