Famous Proverbs
25 Proverbs about Covetous
1.
Every ambitious man is a captive and every covetous one a pauper.2.
Covetous men's chests are rich, not they.3.
A covetous woman deserves a swindling gallant.4.
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.5.
When all sins grow old covetousness is young.6.
Charity gives itself rich, covetousness hoards itself poor.7.
A covetous man does nothing that he should till he dies.8.
Spendthrifts are always of necessity greedy and covetous.9.
The swindler readily cheats the covetous man.10.
A covetous abbot for one offering loses a hundred.