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.