Greed
- The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for beautiful nature nor for living human beings. It is ruthlessly ready without a moment's hesitation to crush beauty and life
-- Rabindranath Tagore
- The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty.
-- Thomas Adams
- There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.
-- Buddha
- The most pitiful human ailment is a birdseed heart.
-- Wilson Mizner
Grief
- Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
- It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
-- Cicero
- There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
-- Samuel Johnson
- The only cure for grief is action.
-- George Henry Lewes
- Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
-- Xenophon
Guest
- The first day, a guest; the second, a burden; the third, a pest.
-- Edouard R. Laboulaye
- No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not annoy his host after three days.
-- Plautus
- Every guest hates the others, and the host hates them all.
-- Albanian Proverb
- Visitors are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not visit, would do nothing.
-- William Cowper
- Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.
-- Kin Hubbard
- A civil guest will no more talk all, than eat all the feast.
-- George Herheri
Guilt
- Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
-- Livy
- He who flees from trial confesses his guilt.
-- Publilius Syrus
- Every guilty person is his own hangman.
-- Seneca
- Guilt is always jealous.
-- John Ray
- Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch.
-- Thomas Paine
- Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
-- William Shakespeare
- It is base to filch a purse, daring to embezzle a million, but it is great beyond measure to steal a crown. The sin lessens as the guilt increases.
-- Johann von Schiller
- Guilt is the source of sorrow, 'tis the fiend,Th' avenging fiend, that follows us behindWith whips and stings.
-- Nicholas Rowe
- Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great.
-- Samuel Johnson
- From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.
-- William Wordsworth
- The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.
-- Cicero
- The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.
-- Conte Vittorio Alfieri
- Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.
-- Voltaire
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