greed

See Also: EATING AND DRINKING, ENVY

1. (My) avarice cooled like lust in the chill grave —Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. Avarice is like a graveyard; it takes all that it can get and gives nothing back —Josh Billings
3. Avaricious … like a pig which seeks its food in the mud, without caring where it comes from —Jean B. M. Vianney
4. 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
5. Covetous persons are like sponges which greedily drink in water, but return very little until they are squeezed —G. S. Bowles
6. Greedy as a colt first loosed to pasture in the spring —Ben Ames Williams
7. Greedy as a vulture —Tobias Smollett
8. He [Donald Trump] has an appetite [for property] like a Rocky Mountain vulture —Alan Greenberg, Wall Street Journal, April 1, 1987
9. Kings, like hyenas, will always fall upon dead carcasses, although their bellies are full, and although they are conscious that in the end they will tear one another to pieces over them —Walter Savage Landor
10. (Love surfeits not) lust like a glutton dies —William Shakespeare
11. Rapacious as a crocodile —Anon
12. Rapacious as a warlord —Sharon Sheehe Stark
13. Sucked him dry like a raw egg —Bertold Brecht
14. They’re [the doctors] milking you like a cow —Molière