materialistic lifestyle Quotes

It embarrasses me to think of all those years I was buying silk suits and alligator shoes that were hurting my feet; cars that I just parked, and the dust would just build up on them.

In a monetary system, most of us live near our work with a house, car, and lifestyle we can afford (or, all too often, cannot afford), rather than the one we prefer. We are only as free as our purchasing power permits. Even many wealthy people today select a residence mainly to impress others with their status. Lacking a true sense of self worth, many live to impress others.

All my wife does is shop - once she was sick for a week, and three stores went under.

Yuppies don't have loyalty. They have useful relationships and meaningful encounters.

I knew a dude whose entire check was going to his car. He didn't care. This is back when the Mustang 5.0 came out in, like, '82. Between paying the note and insurance, I think he had like $40 left. A lot of people knew people because of their car, and not them.

High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship.

We live in a material world, not a dramatic one.

Hell is being trapped in a night-club with the'beautiful people'and forced to live in a'luxury penthouse flat'.