Quotes About Materialism

Men living in democratic times have many passions, but most of their passions either end in the love of riches, or proceed from it.

Riches I need not, nor man's empty praise.

As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.

I'm carrying the weight of all the useless junk and modern man accumulates.

I'll know I'm famous when I have five Ferraris, seven houses, Cameron Diaz on my arm and a little man following me with a huge bag of money.

Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man's pockets.

As civilization advances, man grows unconscious of the primitive elements of life; he is separated from them by his perfection of material techniques.

For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.

Man wants but little, nor that little long; How soon must he resign his very dust, Which frugal nature lent him for an hour!

A man's looks are measured by the depth of his pockets.

Men honor property above all else; it has the greatest power in human life.

Great riches have sold more men than they have bought.

Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?

A lot of people measure a man by what he's got. I've decided to measure myself by what I can give up.

World has things which full fill man needs, but not greeds.

The poor man is he who, having much, craves for more.

How unfortunate and how narrowing a thing it is for a man to have wealth who makes a god of it instead of a servant

In the race for money some men may come first, but man comes last.

No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.

Philosophy teaches a man that he can't take it with him; taxes teach him he can't leave it behind either.

Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.

When I became a man, I put away childish things and got more elaborate and expensive childish things from France and Japan.

We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.

Riches too increase, and the maddening craving for gold, So that men ever seek for more, that they may have the most.