Henry David Thoreau Quotes

I am totally unattached to material items.

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.

The older I get, the less I need. I wear the same jean shorts for the whole week. I'm not running to the store to get the latest bag.

Very early on in life, I decided the hell with it: material things weren't for me. Christmas would come, and other kids would have all these presents, and it wouldn't bother me a bit.

Most men appear never to have considered what a house is, and are actually though needlessly poor all their lives because they think that they must have such a one as their neighbors have. ... Shall we always study to obtain more, and not sometimes be content with less?

The American dream is a crock. Stop wanting everything. Everyone should wear jeans and have three T-shirts, eat rice and beans.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

I don't like to attach myself to material things.

Me, I don't need money.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.

I prefer to stay poor.

He chose to be rich by making his wants few, and supplying them himself.

I'm not materialistic. I love clothes and all that stuff, but I don't need it to live.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

I don't covet images or belongings. My television set and video are rented, any paintings aren't worth a fortune, and money is of little interest.

Don't run after shows and money.

I'm not a big consumer at all. I'm very happy with enough.

I'm not a guy who's about the material things.

I'm really not a materialistic person.

I'm not a very materialistic person.

I have no use for eight houses, 88 cars and 500 suits. I can't eat but one steak at a time. I don't want but one woman. It's silly to have as one's sole object in life just making money, accumulating wealth.

The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

True security lies not in the things one has, but in the things one can do without.

He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.