Quotes About Materialism

Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier.

Man's obsession to add to his wealth and honor is the chief source of his misery.

Poor is the man who desires a lot

I've owned more sofas than I've had husbands. Both sag in the end, but I generally fall out of love with the furniture quicker than the men.

The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.

With gold a man can do anything. It even sends souls to paradise.

To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity.

May God want for man to be able to be a child again to understand that he is mistaken if he thinks he can find happiness with a checkbook.

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

When all a man has is worldly wealth, he is poor indeed.

Don't you know that a man being rich is like a girl being pretty? You wouldn't marry a girl just because she's pretty, but my goodness, doesn't it help?

Balls are to men what purses are to women.

A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

Riches are a cause of evil, not because, of themselves, they do any evil, but because they goad men on to evil.

Who is the covetous man? One for whom plenty is not enough.

One man pretends to be rich, yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.

Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Man does not live by bread alone, even presliced bread.

As men get older, the toys get more expensive.

I used to think that having many material things would increase one's stock of happiness. I found that to be completely untrue. The trappings don't make the man at all.

Money is the alienated essence of man's work and existence; this essence dominates him and he worships it.

But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.