Materialism

We work jobs we hate, to buy things we don't need, to impress people we don't like.

Tyler Durden

Don't go broke trying to impress broke people.

No author

As the purse is emptied the heart is filled.

Victor Hugo

It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Bertrand Russell

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Benjamin Franklin

Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.

Will Rogers

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

John Lennon

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

Martin Luther

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

Oscar Wilde

Money can't buy you happiness, but it helps you look for it in a lot more places.

Milton Berle