/ · 1894 Brewer’s · M · More one has, the More he Desires (The)
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In French, Plus il en a, plus il en veut. In Latin, Quo plus habent, co plus cupiunt.
“My more having would be a source
To make me hunger more.”
Shakespeare: Macbeth, iv. 3.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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