1. Poverty wants many things, and covetousness [avarice] all. 

2. The seven deadly sins are covetousness, envy, gluttony, lust, pride, anger and sloth.

3. Yet covetousness goes farther than material things alone.

4. Above all, covetousness has enormous power and potential to destroy.

5. Covetousness is always short - lived.

6. Covetousness is the mother of ruin and mischief.

7. Poverty want many thing, but covetousness all.

8. As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.

9. Covetousness breaks the bag.

10. Covetousness brings home nothing.

11. Mk. 7:22 Adulteries, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness , envy, blasphemy, arrogance, foolishness.

12. It placards all its wares before us and urges covetousness for those things.

13. The Roman Catholic Church calls the following deadly sins: murder, lust, covetousness, gluttony, pride, envy and idleness.