greedy quotes

Be not greedy to add money to money: but let it be as refuse in respect of our child.

-Bible (Apocrypha)
Tobit 5:18.

If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apttoteach; Not giventowine, nostriker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous.

-Bible (NewTestament)
  Timothy 3:1^3.

I am not hungry; but thank goodness, I am greedy.

-Punch

Alieni appetens, sui profusus. Greedy for the belongings of others, extravagant with his own.

-Sallust in full Gaius Sallustius Crispus
Bellum Catilinae, 5.