WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Tue, 06 Oct 2026 23:57:45 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg covet – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Bierce, Ambrose -- “Covet,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1881-10-07) https://wist.info/bierce-ambrose/83831/ https://wist.info/bierce-ambrose/83831/#respond Tue, 05 May 2026 17:55:38 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=83831 COVET, v.i. To desire that which the owner wickedly withholds.


Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914?) American writer and journalist
“Covet,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1881-10-07)

Not collected in later books. ]]> https://wist.info/bierce-ambrose/83831/feed/ 0 83831 Keillor, Garrison -- Lake Wobegon Days (1985) https://wist.info/keillor-garrison/27065/ https://wist.info/keillor-garrison/27065/#respond Thu, 02 Oct 2014 12:33:36 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=27065 I think if the church put in half the time on covetousness that it does on lust, this would be a better world for all of us.


Garrison Keillor (b. 1942) American entertainer, author
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