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Quotes About Possessions

A man's wealth is measured by what he doesn't need.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.
~ Bob Marley
Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop
~ Gertrude Stein
Never let the things money can buy, rob you of the things money can't buy.
~ Adrian Rogers
If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need.
~ Warren Buffett
It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.
~ George Horace Lorimer
If money and material things become the center of our lives, they seize us and make us slaves.
~ Pope Francis
Money can't buy happiness but it's more comfortable to cry in a Bugatti than on a bicycle.
~ Miguel Torres
All the money you made will never buy back your soul.
~ Bob Dylan
Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The little money I have - that is my wealth, but the things I have for which I would not take money, that is my treasure.
~ Robert Breault
I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.
~ Sammy Davis, Jr.
Having enough money has to go hand in hand with living in a way that you're not being a slave to your possessions.
~ Patton Oswalt
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
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
He that has a penny in his purse, is worth a penny: Have and you shall be esteemed.
~ Petronius
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
The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want
~ John Cage
Not to be covetous, is money; not to be a purchaser, is a revenue.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most certain wealth of all.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Money is much more exciting than anything it buys.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.
~ Ovid