Quotes About Materialism

Money in the hand is real - coins and bills. The rest I don't believe in, and I don't think I ever did, really. What's a check, after all, but a promise - mine, the bank's. Me, I know, but the bank?

There's good stuff going on in modern pop music, but a lot of it is really materialistic and only about money.

Money can purchase the symbols but not the causes of serenity and buoyancy. In a straightforward way we must agree that money cannot buy happiness.

What is money, after all? Almost nothing, when one has a sufficiency of it.

The love of money as a possession...will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.

Happy the Man, who void of Cares and Strife, In Silken, or in Leathern Purse retains A Splendid Shilling: He nor hears with Pain New Oysters cry'd, nor sighs for chearful Ale

There's nothing as real as money.

I had a mink, and I had money and I was miserable.

Sometimes I think that all mankind exist but to be bought and sold: The rich man's paramour is gold, the poor man's goddess, gold, gold, gold.

It's all about greed and money and it's the driving force in Hollywood.

Theres a thousand other things I would rather spend money on than a car.

But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

Matters of the heart are important to me. All this materialism and all the money and wealth are things that you don't take to the grave. One day you have it. The next day you don't.

Peace of mind, joy and happiness cannot be purchased with money or worldly goods.

I had lost something in my youth and made money instead.

Money doesn't buy happiness, Gytha." "I only wanted to rent it for a few weeks!

Money makes people rich; it is a fallacy to think it makes them better, or even that it makes them worse. People are what they do, and what they leave behind.

Money is a necessity; so is dirt.

Better mankind born without mouths and stomachs than always to worry about money to buy, to shop, to fix, to cook, to wash, to clean.

The loony legacy of money was that the arithmetic by which things were measured had become more valuable than the things themselves.

To possess money is very well; it may be a valuable servant; to be possessed by it is to be possessed by the devil, and one of the meanest and worst kind of devils.

There are some things that money can't buy: peace of mind, for starters, and lean muscle mass. Neither the Queen of England nor the founder of Microsoft can put in an order for either one.

The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion.

Where any view of money exists, art cannot be carried on.