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Quotes About Materialism

I wouldn't sell my bike for all the money in the world. Not for a hundred million, trillion, billion dollars!
~ Paul Reubens
Money is a guarantee that we can have what we want in the future
~ Aristotle
Wasting money puts you in a real party mood.
~ Andy Warhol
Nothing hurts worse than the loss of money.
~ Livy
I'm someone who'd never base how happy I am on how much money I have, or how good a restaurant is because of how posh it is.
~ Jessie J
The 'almighty dollar' is the true divinity, and its worship is universal.
~ Isabella Bird
Put money in thy purse.
~ William Shakespeare
We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.
~ Zelda Fitzgerald
Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
~ Alan Watts
Money is human happiness in the abstract.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute-but they all worship money.
~ Mark Twain
To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.
~ William Blake
At the end of your life, you cannot take a penny with you. So what is the object of money if you can't take it with you?
~ Suze Orman
The healthiest people were those who didn't spend money that they hadn't earned, to buy things that they didn't need, to impress people that they didn't like.
~ Deepak Chopra
Nothing lulls and inebriates like money; when you have a lot, the world seems a better place than it actually is.
~ Anton Chekhov
Money can't buy happiness but it'll sure keep a mess of grief off your front porch.
~ James Lee Burke
I buy whatever I see, but I tend to not spend money just to spend it.
~ Macklemore
One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
~ E. M. Forster
Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench.
~ Gautama Buddha
So many bands are like, 'I'm real because I'm dirty.' If you have money for guitars, you can afford soap.
~ Pelle Almqvist
A woman's mink coat represents the sacrifice of a lot of little animals, including her husband.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.
~ Propertius
To mistake money for wealth, is the same sort of error as to mistake the highway which may be the easiest way of getting to your house or lands, for the house and lands themselves.
~ John Stuart Mill
Some men make money not for the sake of living, but ache In the blindness of greed and live just for their fortune's sake.
~ Juvenal