Quotes About Hoarding

Always remember, knowledge is a product of labor. It is to be shared but never taken. For if you set out to rip knowledge away from others and hoard it like a jealous merchant hoards their wealth, you too will be shunned like this sphinx and banished from the circle of your peers.

I hadn't thought that I was generally a pack rat, but it turns out I am.

There's nothing wrong with having a collection, but it becomes a problem when it overwhelms your space. When you're not displaying it properly, you're not enjoying it and it turns into clutter.

I hoarded all the stories that reflected the light and dazzled me.

I'm somewhat of a hoarder. I keep everything.

There are no such things as book hoarders, only aspiring librarians

The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.

Irishmen with guns were like squirrels with nuts, always stashing them, and sometimes forgetting where the hell they'd been stashed.

I've come across otherwise smart people who are of the mistaken belief that if they hold on to a task, something only they know how to do, it'll ensure job security. These people are knowledge hoarders. This doesn't work. Everyone is replaceable. No matter how talented they are. Sure it may take longer at first to find out how to do that special task, but it will happen without them.

What kind of a maniac needed over five thousand plates?

Houses are full of things that gather dust

Like my mum, I sometimes buy things I shouldn't and fill my house with rubbish.

Portugal was making money out of both sides in the war, and, as always, the rich were adding to their hoards while the poor discovered the meaning of inflation and that wages never kept up with the stealthy increase in the cost of food.

One theory holds that the CIA has spotted them already but the information is being withheld until it is ruled out that they are hoarding weapons of mass destruction like blowpipes.)

Les collectionneurs étaient des personnages mesquins, des gens qui vivaient dans l'obsession d'un contrôle qu'ils n'atteindraient jamais.

Without plenty, the wealthy lack compassion for the poor, hoarding without sharing. Without law, the strong bully the weak, stealing by force.

Houses are full of things that gather dust

As a kid I collected stamps, pebbles on the beach, anything. I liked to have at least 10 of something.

Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing.

You know when you first get rich, and you, like, just buy everything that you see? I did that for several years. And I have sheds full of things, maybe sometimes nine copies of the same thing.

He trailed off as he saw the books. Piles and stacks of them beside the sofa, another stack on the coffee table, a sea of them on her dining table. Jesus Christ, Dane, you need treatment.

Hoard food and it rots. Hoard money and you rot. Hoard power and the nation rots.

Hoard food and it rots. Hoard money and you rot. Hoard power and the government rots.

That is why an expiring form of money is crucial. Power passed from generation to generation in the abstract form of wealth leads to privilege and corruption. Money must not be hoarded for its own sake but must be continually employed for a fruitful purpose.