Famous Proverbs
37 Proverbs about Covet
1. Every ambitious man is a captive and every covetous one a pauper.
2. Covet wealth, and want it; don't, and luck will grant it.
3. Covetous men's chests are rich, not they.
4. A covetous woman deserves a swindling gallant.
5. Six things have no business in the world: a fighting priest, a coward knight, a covetous judge, a stinking barber, a soft-hearted mother, and an itchy baker.
6. When all sins grow old covetousness is young.
7. Charity gives itself rich, covetousness hoards itself poor.
8. A covetous man does nothing that he should till he dies.
9. Covet not the property of others.
10. Spendthrifts are always of necessity greedy and covetous.