Quotes About Consumption

A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''

The more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth.

The most fertile districts of the habitable globe are now actually cultivated by men for animals, at a delay and waste of aliment absolutely incapable of calculation

There is a good deal in a man's mode of eating.

The gross feeder is a man in the larva state; and there are whole nations in that condition, nations without fancy or imagination,whose vast abdomens betray them.

Men who pay for what they eat will insist on gratifying their palates

Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?

Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.

The very substance which last week was grazing in the field, waving in the milk pail, or growing in the garden, is now become part of the man.

Men do not knowingly drink for the effect alcohol produces on the body. What they drink for is the brain-effect; and if it must come through the body, so much the worse for the body.

Whoever heard a man of fortune in England talk of the necessaries of life? . . . Whether we can afford it or no, we must have superfluities.

One man's consumption becomes his neighbor's wish.

What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.

If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need.

You can only drink 30 or 40 glasses of beer a day, no matter how rich you are.

Rich people buy luxuries last, while the poor and middle class tend to buy luxuries first.

We are addicted to money and our obsession with it is leading to the destruction of our planet.

Whether we're talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.

Money talks. It makes art. It determines what food we eat, whether we are cured or die, and what shoes we wear.

The more successful capitalists are in cutting their wage costs, the less money workers will have to buy back what those same capitalists produce. It's a contradiction.

Americans spend more money on Botox, face lifts and tummy tucks than on the age-old scourges of polio, small pox and malaria.

The entire world economy rests on the consumer; if he ever stops spending money he doesn't have on things he doesn't need -- we're done for.

The way money goes so fast these days, they should paint racing stripes on it.

I'm all about making money. It's the greatest thing, because it means you get money to spend.