Greedy

Famous quotes containing the word greedy:

“Don’t make your enemies happy.
Make up with your lover,
who’s greedy to be back
in your good graces.
Daughter,
because you’ve taken anger to extremes,
you won’t amount
to a hill of beans.”
—Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)

“Oh mother,
her in your lap,
as good as a bowlful of clouds,
I your greedy child
am given your breast,
the sea wrapped in skin.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“They are so greedy and impetuous that they are frequently caught by being entangled in the line the moment it is cast.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)