Maria Bamford Quotes

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Avarice is a deadly sin.

There is something about prosperity that brings out the worst in some people.

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

We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.

No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want - or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you're better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.

I felt I was owned by possessions.

I had the notion that, OK, so now we have all of this wealth, we could buy not only one expensive car, we could buy all of them. As soon as you realize that you could buy all of them, then none of them are particularly interesting or satisfying.

There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice.

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

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

The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.

As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.

Avarice, the sphincter of the heart.

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties.

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

Avarice is the vice of declining years.

Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.

I haven't turned into some rich monster. I've kept my perspective. But I am a bit spoiled. It's hard not to be a little spoiled by having a lot of money.

The desire for money may be an indication of greed, but I want to argue that greed is a much more subtle vice than simply the desire to be rich.

He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

There is always greed. There is nothing wrong with greed.