Hoarding Quotes

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

All amassing of wealth or hoarding of wealth above and beyond one's legitimate needs is theft.

Three months before he died, I began to steal things from my father's house. I wandered around barefoot and slipped objects into my pockets. I took blush, toothpaste, two chipped finger bowls in celadon blue, a bottle of nail polish, a pair of worn patent-leather ballet slippers, and four faded white pillowcases the color of old teeth.

When I save, I lay something aside for future need. If I sense God's leading, I will give it away to meet greater needs. When I hoard, I'm unwilling to part with what I've saved to meet others' needs, because my possible future needs outweigh their actual present needs. I fail to love my neighbor as myself.

When people get scared, they quit giving.

I try not to look at my old stuff or my new stuff, really. I'm not a fan.

The bread which you hold back belongs to the hungry; the coat, which you guard in your locked storage-chests, belongs to the naked; the footwear mouldering in your closet belongs to those without shoes. The silver that you keep hidden in a safe place belongs to the one in need. Thus, however many are those whom you could have provided for, so many are those whom you wrong.

Life's accumulation is more discouraging than life itself, when stirred up.

People surround themselves in their houses with things they don't really need, that they have to dust all the time.

Collecting is the sort of thing that creeps up on you.

On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom.

Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner.

We have about 50% of the world's wealth but only 6.3% of its population…. we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment …

There's a lot in my closet. I've been collecting things since I was five. I'm definitely a pack rat. I'm not a hoarder, but I'm definitely a pack rat. I will keep anything if I have a memory in it or a good moment.

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.

Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself.

We think we own things, but the reality is, our things own us.

How unfortunate and how narrowing a thing it is for a man to have wealth who makes a god of it instead of a servant.

The crazy thing is I got all of these shoes, and probably 80 percent of them I've never worn before. I've worn all the glasses. I sleep in them, bend them up a little bit. Glasses are on all the time except when I'm at practice or at work.

Messy stuff irritates me. I don't like messiness. If you leave something around my house, I'll tell you to move it back, clean it up, throw it in the trash - don't matter, just get rid of it. I need stuff neat, organized. And once I start cleaning stuff, I don't stop until it's done. Otherwise I'm irritated all day.

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

I keep everything. It's one of my problems. I'm a saver.

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.

I clean out my house weekly. I just keep a lot of silly little things that are meaningful to me.