Quotes About Materialism

In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

No man actually owns a fortune. It owns him.

The man who worships mere wealth is a snob.

Men are a thousand times more intent on becoming rich than on acquiring culture, though it is quite certain that what a man IS contributes more to his happiness than what he HAS.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.

The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.

It's rather grisly, isnt it, how soon a living man becomes nothing more than a collection of stocks and bonds and debts and real estate?

Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.

The man who has a house everywhere has a home nowhere

I have lived to prove Thoreau's contention that a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

There are men who gain from their wealth only the fear of losing it.

In terms of addiction, there is nothing more powerful than men's toys.

By his own efforts man could never gain the true and desired riches.

The Christian is the most contented man in the world, but he is the least contented with the world.

Modern man's happiness consists in the thrill of looking at the shop windows, and in buying all that he can afford to buy, either for cash or on installments.

Can a man be poor if he is free from want, if he does not covet the belongings of others, if he is rich in the possession of God? Rather, he is poor who possesses much but still craves for more.

Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.

Men are ruled by toys.

Few things are necessary to make the wise man happy while no amount of material wealth would satisfy a fool. I am not a fool.

You see, after all, few rich men own their property. The property owns them.

It may be that today gold has become the exclusive ruler of life, but the time will come when man will again bow down before a higher god.

A covetous man's penny is a stone.

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.