Quotes About Materialism

Happy are they who can please and delight their senses with things insensate—and who can live off their death.

El aparato no corresponde a la fiesta: el avaricioso se atormenta más que el pobre, y el celoso más que el cornudo.

Cada uno de nosotros es más rico de lo que piensa, pero se nos habitúa al préstamo y a la mendicidad; se nos acostumbra a servirnos de lo ajeno más que de lo nuestro. En nada acierta el hombre detenerse en el preciso punto de su necesidad: en goces, riqueza y poderío abraza más de lo que puede estrechar; su avidez es incapaz de moderación. Yo

Ä°nsanlar?n ÅŸu anda ellerinde olana, ilerde ellerine geçeceklere göre daha az ilgi gösterdiÄŸi zamanlard? - sahip olduklarin?, modas? geçmiÅŸ ve istenmeyen k?lacak ÅŸeylerin özlemini çektikleri zamanlard?.

From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort and pleasure

You can have earthly riches, but you can still be poor spiritually.

If we equate having stuff with contentment, then why aren't we satisfied considering all the stuff we have?

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped. Calvin Coolidge

Money cannot purchase what the heart desires. Chinese

And there's a darker side to Peckham, too, once you get in deep: a side I like a lot more, because I identify with the past and prefer even worm-eaten wood to wipe-clean plastic.

Suburban transcendence for the Ikea age.

Pa što - zamišljeno je rekao taj - ljudi kao ljudi. Vole novac, ali tako je uvijek bilo... ?ovje?anstvo voli novac, ma od ?ega on bio napravljen, od kože, od papira, od bakra ili zlata. Lakomisleni... Što ?eš... I milosr?e ponekad zastruji u njihovim srcima... Obi?ni ljudi... Op?enito uzevši, podsje?aju na prijašnje... Samo ih je stambeno pitanje pokvarilo...

Pa što, zamišljeno je rekao taj,ljudi kao ljudi. Vole novac, ali tako je uvijek bilo...?ovje?anstvo voli novac, ma od ?ega on bio napravljen, od kože, od papira, od bakra ili zlata.

Gold will buy the highest honours; and gold will purchase love.

I truly would love to be a designer-label girl, but I am very much High Street.

I love buying things. I could be one of those crazy hoarders.

Naught is possessed, neither gold, nor land nor love, nor life, nor peace, nor even sorrow nor death, nor yet salvation. Say of nothing: It is mine. Say only: It is with me.

Maybe money can't buy love - but it can get you practically everything else.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

We are all materialistic. There are different levels of materialism! Some aspire to a fancy car, others only wish to go to bed at night with a full stomach.

Don't Worry If She Ignored You Or You're Ugly. She'll See Your Beautiful Heart as Soon As You Step Out From The Audi.

Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.

Before I leave, the Eurotrash girl tells me she likes my gazelleskin wallet. I tell her I would like to tit-fuck her and then maybe cut her arms off, but the music, George Michael singing "Faith," is too loud and she can't hear me. Back upstairs I find Patricia where I left her

And as the elevator descends, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even farther down, I realize that the money doesn't matter. That all that does is that I want to see the worst.