Quotes About Materialism

Everybody wishes to have something that somebody else has. And that's the root of all sorrows.

Experience and wisdom are more tangible than materialism.

People know the value of money so they chase it. I wonder if they know the worth of love.

Wisdom is not merchandise, hence it is possible to come across a rich fool.

Because a spoon is made of gold does not change the soup's taste.

The happiness of the superficial: when a man who has lost his donkey finds it again.

Mercedes Benz : A mechanical device that increases sexual arousal in women.

I love America, and I love American women. But there is one thing that deeply shocks me - American closets. I cannot believe one can dress well when you have so much.

When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping.

What do women want? Shoes.

I've never had a car sponsor or all the things that most others seemed to have had.

These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it.

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.

People have nannies and big cars, and they want to go to Maui for Christmas. When there are those kind of stakes involved, people get ruthless.

I worry that every time I lay down my credit card of choice, it says something about me. About my social standing or how I see myself. The very colour of your card is an indication of where you stand in the wealth stakes.

I believe in the gold standard. I like solid lumps of things. You can always melt them down.

From a shallow standpoint, I like nice things.

What stands out about me the most? Probably my chains. I don't know.

No man can lose what he never had.

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry

Golden roofs break men's rest.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat.

The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.