Lillian Russell Quotes

I felt I was owned by possessions.

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

It doesn't matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You're still left alone with yourself in the end.

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

Imagine you're 24 years old, earning what I earn and having all that I have. Wouldn't you be the same as me?

You are not the car you drive.

Pride is what you can afford or think you can afford.

Earthly goods are given to be used, not to be collected.... Hoarding is idolatry.

Riches ennoble a man's circumstances, but not himself.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give.

Things. Cosas. Things attach themselves like leeches to the human soul, then they bleed out the sweetness and the music and the primordial joy of being unencumbered upon the land.

The More we value things, the less we value ourselves

The world will try to tell you that you need stuff to be somebody. Don't listen

The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer; but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.

All things that a man owns hold him far more than he holds them.

People always ask me if I believe diamonds are a girl's best friend. Frankly, I don't.

The more you own, the more it owns you.

Owning is owing, having is hoarding.

Let me tell you something 'bout these rich Uptown folk," said Cokie. "They got everything that money can buy, their bank accounts are fat, but they ain't happy. They ain't ever gone be happy. You know why? They soul broke. And money can't fix that, no sir.

I'm not technically rich, but I do have a lot of s**t that I don't need, that I refuse to share with others.

Men honor property above all else; it has the greatest power in human life.

People who have few possessions cling tightly to those they have. That is one of the facts that make life so discouraging.

Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.

You are judged of by what you possess.