Mark Twain Quotes

A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.

There is always greed. There is nothing wrong with greed.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.

I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood.

To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

There is definitely an addiction to money that I have.

Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.

The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

Greed, greed, greed. That’s the fundamental problem of mankind. If we can solve that problem, the rest of man’s problems would follow. The only thing that can undermine our free society is greed.

For such is the disease of wealth, which knows no limit to its desire of more...

It would be necessary to eliminate the excessive regard and esteem for wealth, because the craving for riches erodes the desire for true glory, prevents the cultivation of the virtues and results in countless seizures of what belongs to others, as well as many other dishonorable actions.

Once a man has begun to accumulate money, it is unnatural to stop. He actually gets in a state where he wants more and more..

He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him.

… the mere money-making American, insensible to every duty, regardless of every principle, bent only on amassing a fortune.

There is something about prosperity that brings out the worst in some people.

I think that money is the root of all evil. I've seen it happen.

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

Money is evil.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice.

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.