Keep Up With The Joneses Quotes

#1. This self-destructive behavior is becoming more and more mainstream in our society today, because we like to keep up with the Joneses. We don't consider the fact that the Joneses' kids are not going to the university, and they will not be able to retire in comfort. Life should be better than that.

Celso Cukierkorn

#2. I don't keep up with the Joneses, I am the Joneses.

NeNe Leakes

#3. Will any of those men under you ever really understand all this? They're professional cynics, and it's too late for them. Why do you want to go back with them? So you can keep up with the Joneses? To buy a gyro just like the Smith has? To listen to music with your pocketbook instead of your glands?

Ray Bradbury

#4. So now you know where to shop. Stop trying to keep up with the Joneses. Stop wasting your money on conspicuous consumption. As a first step, work less, earn less, accumulate less, and "consume" more family time, vacations, and other enjoyable activities.

Jonathan Haidt

#5. Many a family, in order to make a 'proper showing,' will commit itself for a larger and more expensive house than is needed, in an expensive neighborhood. Almost everyone would, it seems, like to keep up with the Joneses.

Ezra Taft Benson

#6. The governing ideal was not merely to keep up with the Joneses, but to be the Joneses - to own the same model of car or dishwasher or lawn mower.

Chris Anderson

#7. The American dream, what we were taught was, grow up, own a car, own a house. I think that dream's completely changing. We were taught to keep up with the Joneses. Now we're sharing with the Joneses.

Brian Chesky

#8. I can't help feeling that people ask too much [of life]. They don't keep up with the Joneses any more
they outstrip them. What people call happiness, today, isn't happiness. It's enjoyment. It's pleasure. And between happiness and pleasure there's a very large gap.

Elizabeth Cadell

#9. Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.

Quentin Crisp

#10. Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you.

Erma Bombeck

#11. Those dreams are true which we have in the morning, as the lamp begins to flicker.
[Lat., Namque sub Aurora jam dormitante lucerna
Sommia quo cerni tempore vera solent.]

Ovid

#12. For some reason, the smell brings tears to my eyes. I almost feel like I'm saying goodbye to him, which is ridiculous because I'm seeing him again in just a few hours. It's like saying goodbye to a dream that was never mine in the first place. Love is the worst.

Jacqueline E. Smith

#13. The policy of dollar diplomacy is one that appeals alike to idealistic humanitarian sentiments, to dictates of sound policy, and strategy, and to legitimate commercial aims.

William Howard Taft

#14. It bugs me that people think my songs are personal because it means I have to explain myself all the time.

Ray Lamontagne

#15. Very sorry to disappoint you, guys. It was not for my girlfriend but for Sachin Tendulkar.

Yuvraj Singh

#16. Kristen Stewart is kind of captivating; she can just stare at stuff and it works because I still want to watch it.

Joss Whedon

#17. I meet regularly with my staff to ensure they are aware of what I want, but also to make sure they have the chance to influence the process and use all of their knowledge to help prepare the group.

Brendan Rodgers

#18. Anyone who writes can be called a writer because they write.

Dejan Stojanovic

#19. You have a chance to move in far better society than the Joneses. Why worry about keeping up with the Joneses? Keep up with the Angels and you'll be far wiser and happier.

Fulton J. Sheen

#20. Oh for a single hour of that Dundee Who on that day the word of onset gave!

William Wordsworth

#21. It's amazing how many of the things needed for a basic biology lab are capable of blowing up, if you're willing to try very, very hard, and don't much care about possibly losing a few fingers in the process.

Mira Grant

#22. Most of the choices we make each day may feel like the products of well-considered decision making, but they're not. They're habits.

Charles Duhigg