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| A covetous abbot for one offering loses a hundred. | 1 |
| A covetous man does nothing that he should till he dies. | 2 |
| A covetous man has two sources of inquietudes: how to amass money and how to use it. Sri Lankan. | 3 |
| A covetous man is a dog in a wheel that roasts meat for others. | 4 |
| A covetous man makes a half-penny of a farthing and a liberal man makes sixpence of it. | 5 |
| A covetous man makes no friend. Sri Lankan. | 6 |
| A covetous woman deserves a swindling gallant. | 7 |
| All covet, all lose. Italian, Dutch. | 8 |
| Covet nothing over much. Chilo. | 9 |
| Covetous men are condemned to dig in the mines for they know not who. | 10 |
| Covetous men are neither clothed, fed nor respected. | 11 |
| Covetous men live drudges to die wretches. | 12 |
| Covetous men’s chests are rich, not they. | 13 |
| Covetousness as well as prodigality brings a man to a morsel of bread. | 14 |
| Covetousness brings nothing home. | 15 |
| Covetousness bursts the bag. Spanish. | 16 |
| Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel. | 17 |
| Covetousness is never satisfied until its mouth is filled with dirt. Dutch. | 18 |
| Covetousness is the father of unsatisfied desires. Yorubas. (Africa.) | 19 |
| Covetousness starves other vices. | 20 |
| Even covetous men have sometimes their intervals of generosity. | 21 |
| That which we may live without, we need not much covet. | 22 |
| The world is too small for the covetous. Latin. | 23 |
| Those who covet much want much. Horace. | 24 |
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