Quotes About Buying Happiness

#1. I was convinced that the proverb about money not buying happiness was written by a rich guy who didn't want you to feel bad because you didn't have any.

Donald Jans

#2. Money almost always ends up disappointing.
Buying things to give lasing satisfaction is an illusion. Money can't buy happiness. The people with the most money are often times the MOST miserable people.

Lisa Bedrick

#3. I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.

Harlan Coben

#4. Where there's more of singing and less of sighing,
Where there's more of giving and less of buying,
And a man makes friends without half trying
That's where the West begins.

Arthur Chapman

#5. A refined sort of butcher, a woman is.

John Osborne

#6. It's political, sir. Apparently he wants a return to the values and traditions that made the city great, sir."
"Does he _know_ what those values and traditions _were_?" said Vimes, aghast.

Terry Pratchett

#7. In addition to hydropower, Oregon and the Northwest have pioneering companies leading the way in environmentally friendly energy technology.

Greg Walden

#8. The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. We may observe that, in displaying the praises of any humane, beneficent man, there is one circumstance which never fails to be amply insisted on, namely, the happiness and satisfaction, derived to society from his intercourse and good offices.

David Hume

#10. I don't actually live here," Reggie said.
"Who does live here then?"
"Ms. MacDonald, except that she doesn't because she's dead. Everyone's dead."
"I'm not," Jackson said. "You're not.

Kate Atkinson

#11. Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself.

Thomas Aquinas

#12. I should have drunk more Champagne.

John Maynard Keynes

#13. To buy a cake ... to howl at the moon ... to know true happiness ... I am happy.

C. JoyBell C.

#14. You show me what someone listens to, I'll tell you everything you want to know about his soul. (For instance, a bunch of Nickelback albums would have indicated he never had a soul in the first place.)

Tad Williams

#15. Our economy is based on spending billions to persuade people that happiness is buying things, and then insisting that the only way to have a viable economy is to make things for people to buy so they'll have jobs and get enough money to buy things.

Philip Slater

#16. A lot of our happiness is derived from experiences, not from buying products. People are twice as happy buying experiences as products. People are happy buying experiences. They don't want something that's commoditised.

Ruzwana Bashir

#17. On the way out of the bathroom, he stopped to put the toilet seat down. You're going to break my heart, Ford Winter, she thought.

Michele Jaffe

#18. If you think your initial market might be too big, it almost certainly is.

Peter Thiel

#19. [on buying a private island] Money doesn't buy you happiness, but it buys you a big enough yacht to sail right up to it.

Johnny Depp

#20. The results from both studies clearly indicated that in terms of short- and long-term happiness, buying experiences made people feel better than buying products.

Richard Wiseman

#21. I'm not an overly material person. Sure, I like certain comforts in life. But buying a lot of 'things' doesn't produce happiness for me.

Joe Mansueto

#22. Modern man's happiness consists in the thrill of looking at the shop windows, and in buying all that he can afford to buy, either for cash or on installments.

Erich Fromm

#23. It's horrible when people are only interested in buying labels, because it doesn't bring them the happiness they think it will.

Miuccia Prada