Quotes About Hoarding

A miser is a person who is reluctant to spend and saves for those who will bury him.

You really have to clean up your room sometime, all these yellowed pages and scraps of paper completely covered with dust, someday no one will be able to find his way around in them.

The very idea of purging source data appalls me. I suppose if I were human, I'd be a pack rat. I'd probably end up as a little old lady who gets crushed to death beneath the weight of her lifetime collection of National Geographics.

He's a collector. That's the great dead thing in him.

In 2013, the Venezuelan government accused the opposition of hoarding toilet paper and causing a national shortage.

The book borrower...proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures...as by his failure to read these books.

I don't hoard, exactly, but I get it. It's a response to our need and desire for purpose, order, definition, and a fortress. It's a calling that requires constant management, control, and obsessive attention.

She tried to persuade them to confine their tributes to flowers and sweets, which had at least the merit of mortality; but she was never successful, and the house was gradually filled with a collection of foot-warmers, cushions, clocks, screens, barometers and vases, a constant repetition and a boundless incongruity of useless but indestructible objects.

For many in towns it is a consuming, lifelong struggle; for others, the danger of coming to want is so great, the deadly habit of endless hoarding for the future is formed, which smothers all real life, and is continued long after every reasonable need has been over-supplied.

Greed is taking more than you need to feed. Avarice is hoarding, and stockpiling stolen, rotten goods.

I am a hoarder of two things: documents and trusted friends.

However hard as I try, it keeps growing. My bibliomania is pretty acute.

Hoarding and wasting kept them out of Heaven And brought them to this barroom brawl; I won't try to prettify it with words.

women are elephants and watch the way you say that in front of them because they'll think you're calling them fat and there's no coming back from that moment. But they hoard. They say they don't, but they do. We think that if something's not spoken about again, it goes away. It doesn't. Nothing goes away just like that...

Because women are elephants and watch the way you say that in front of them because they'll think you're calling them fat and there's no coming back from that moment. But they hoard. They say they don't, but they do. We think that if something's not spoken about again, it goes away. It doesn't. Nothing goes away just like that, Mackee.

My cheeks were burning like those of a squirrel hoarding jalapeños

I will admit to hoarding beauty products. I'm a beauty lady.

Mengele's greatest passion. He collected

This civic-minded commitment might have been a function of the socialist philosophy that the brothers shared: they would generate wealth, but they wouldn't hoard

The people will curse the hoarder of grain, but blessing will crown the one who sells it.

There is a grievous evil I have seen under the sun: wealth hoarded to the harm of its owner,

Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and consume your flesh like fire. You have hoarded treasure in the last days.