Sinbad Quotes

We spend money we don't have, on things we don't need, to make impressions that don't matter.

I do, kind of, spend a lot. And just on stupid things. Because I don't really know what to do. What are you supposed to do? Um. It just seems like way too much. We don't deserve it, at all, for what we do.

I'm sure the way to be happy is to live well beyond your means!

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

I blew about pounds 70,000 on stupid things - a very expensive car which got written off, and nightclubs. I'd always pick up the bill. It's very easy to spend a lot of money in a short space of time, going out.

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

Television's escapist programming naturally continues to endorse living beyond one's means as the time-tested American Way and rarely depicts families or individuals wracked by the pressures and miseries that come with excess.

Even when I had no money, I spent everything I had on clothes.

Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.

There's nothing like spending other peoples’ money

We spend our way to the poorhouse. We buy giant TVs and iPads. Our children wear nice clothes thanks to high-interest credit cards and payday loans. We purchase homes we don't need, refinance them for more spending money, and declare bankruptcy, often leaving them full of garbage in our wake. Thrift is inimical to our being.

Consumerism is the reason Christmas has morphed into a hollow shopping ritual that leaves too many families with debt hangovers and an empty feeling inside.

I can't tell you how much money I waste on plaid shirts, whisky that I hate the taste of, and Moleskine notebooks that I never write in.

If advertising encourages people to live beyond their means, so does matrimony.

I'm not against people having new cars. I'm against them having you. We spend a tremendous amount impressing somebody at the stoplight who we'll never meet. It makes you broke and keeps you broke.

All too often a family’s spending is governed more by their yearning than by their earning. They somehow believe that their life will be better if they surround themselves with an abundance of things. All too often all they are left with is avoidable anxiety and distress

If you buy the things you don't need, you will soon be selling the things that you need.

Everyone wants instant gratification: you have to have everything your parents had right away.

My illness is one often characterized by dramatic overspending - in my case through frenzied shopping sprees, credit card abuse, excessive hoarding of unnecessary material goods and bizarre generosity with family, friends and even strangers.

It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

I've got over three-hundred pairs of shoes back home - I'm twenty-four years old and I wear a size four, so all my shoes are just cheap.

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

We have a bad habit. We buy what we want and beg what we need.

Americans have spent their way to happiness.