Henry George Quotes

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

The more you have, the more you want L'appetit vient en mangeant

I think we're all greedy. Who do you know who says, 'I have enough! I don't need any more!'? It's part of human nature.

I suppose I was always very greedy. I was never happy with what we had, and I was always looking for new opportunities.

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

Everyone wants, wants, wants... and when they have, they feel desperate.

The avarice of mankind is insatiable; at one time two obols was pay enough; but now, when this sum has become customary, men always want more and more without end.

Death and hell are never full, and neither are men's eyes.

The avarice of mankind is insatiable.

We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.

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

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

I always wanted more - more of everything.

I'm as hungry as ever.

Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is to little.

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

For greed, all nature is too little.

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.

Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.

People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.

I always want more, and that's just my life.

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

Its really most remarkable how the human race is so seldom satisfied with what its got. Give a man the world and he's pining for the moon.