Quotes About Keeping Up With The Joneses

#1. 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

#2. Many art-worlders have an if-you-say-so approach to art: Everyone is so scared of missing out on the next hot artist that it's never clear whether people are liking work because they like it or because other people do. Everyone is keeping up with the Joneses, and there are more Joneses than ever.

Jerry Saltz

#3. There is not point keeping up with the Joneses if they're going someplace you don't want to go.

Michael Hyatt

#4. Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.

Quentin Crisp

#5. This entire ordeal taught me a valuable lesson. People are important-not things. I was no longer keeping up with the Joneses, material things or lots of money; that mattered very little to me. Life isn't about having, is about being.

Silvia Corradin

#6. People think that working hard for money and then buying things that make them look rich will make them rich. In most cases it doesn't. It only makes them more tired. They call it 'Keeping up with the Joneses.' And if you notice, the Joneses are exhausted.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#7. I will not dwell on, nor mourn over, our untimely decay, nor reproach my paleface brothers with hastening it, as we too may have been somewhat to blame.

Chief Seattle

#8. A lot of my world-view is formed by the places I've been.

James Ransone

#9. It's easy to fall into the trap of thinking our careers will come to a standstill, or worse, crash and burn if we aren't social media butterflies.

M.J. Rose

#10. My definition of an American Idol is someone who is a great talent and who communicates well with the audience

Blake Lewis

#11. At the base level, a burger is a piece of meat and a bun with something on it. It's simple but it seems to make a lot of people happy.

Danny Meyer

#12. I'm glad you decided to come."
"It doesn't mean anything." He grinned. "Everything means something.

Suzanne Enoch

#13. Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.

Gerard Way

#14. We may yearn for rustic detail and old-world charm, but those who have it set their minds on vinyl wallpaper, fitted carpets and all mod cons.

Tahir Shah

#15. 'Bag of Bones' was a big, distorted yet wonderfully entertaining novel that rode high on the bestseller lists in 1998.

Jay Parini

#16. Oh, mansion shmansion. Did Gandhi's house have the largest outdoor trampoline in the tristate area? Did Jesus have a two-acre remote-controlled car track, with mountains to scale and a little village that lit up at night?
Not in his Bible.

George Saunders

#17. My handbag turned into a diaper bag for the chronically ill.

Tracey Berkowitz