Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887.

Greed

Big mouthfuls often choke.Italian.

Greed and the eye can no man fill.German.

Greedy folks have long arms.

Greedy chokes puppy.West Indian.

He has eat up the pot and asks for the pipkin.

The bounty of nature is too little for the greedy man.Seneca.

Whose carriage is greediness, his companion is beggary.Oriental.

Ye let little gae by you unless it be the swallow.