Material Value Quotes

What more valuable than Gold? Diamonds. Than Diamonds? Virtue.

In a consumer society, people wallow in things, fascinating, enjoyable things. If you define your value by the things you acquire and surround yourself with, being excluded is humiliating.

We value 'stuff' quite highly. Why? Because that 'stuff' apparently matters. Not only that, we use it as a measure of how successful we are, and as a result of that, having more of this 'stuff' often determines how people treat us.

If you can't eat it, can't sleep under it, can't wear it or make something from it, it's not worth anything.

Collecting is more than just buying objects.

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.

Money is much more exciting than anything it buys.

I don't need designer things. And YOU are designer, Rush.

The substitution of meaning accounts for the grasping of misers as well as the extravagance of spendthrifts. Karl Marx well understood this peculiar transformation of flesh into coin.

I don't really know and I don't care what I'm worth.

Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with.

I've had the belt and it's great. But at the end of the day it's just 12 pounds of leather and gold.

Many priceless things can be bought.

Heck, gold medals, what can you do with them?

I'm not one of those girls who gets with somebody for the jewelry.

A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.

Most people want a lot more from us than stuff is worth because they think we're extremely wealthy or something.

We must remember that everything depends on how we use a material, not on the material itself... New materials are not necessarily superior. Each material is only what we make it.

People feel powerless and useless in the world. But they can buy something. It can give them a sense of value, of power.

It's fun to have money, but the more money I get, the less interesting it becomes. If you don't have very much, you have to think about it. If you are starving, you become interested in food. If you are struggling to pay the bills, money becomes tragically important.

Who values gold above all, considers all else as trifling.

Men will tell you sometimes that "money's hard." That shows it was not made to eat, I say.... Some of those who sank with the steamer the other day found out that money was heavy too.

If gold knew what gold is, gold would get gold I wis.

The cost of a loaf is a simple thing, and so a loaf is often sought, but some things are past valuing: laughter, land, and love are never bought.

Money refused loose its brightness.