Top 35 Quotes About The Joneses
#1. My handbag turned into a diaper bag for the chronically ill.
Tracey Berkowitz
#2. 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
#3. Single gals aren't all a bunch of Bridget Joneses, desperate for love.
Anita Hamilton
#4. Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you.
Erma Bombeck
#5. 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
#6. Reading is for pleasure; it's not another form of social competition. Leave those literary Joneses to it.
Heather Reyes
#7. Felicity laughs and takes on the tone of a fashionable lady. Darling, the Bryn-Joneses have just done the most marvelous thing in their parlor with human blood. We simply must have ours done straightaway!
Libba Bray
#8. I don't keep up with the Joneses, I am the Joneses.
NeNe Leakes
#9. 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
#10. When we're more interested in telling people what to do than in listening to what they are presently doing, we are off balance.
John C. Maxwell
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. There is not point keeping up with the Joneses if they're going someplace you don't want to go.
Michael Hyatt
#16. The heavy sensual shoulders, the thighs, the blood-born flesh
and earth turning into color, rocks into their crystals,
water to sound, fire to form: life flickers
uncounted into the supple arms of love.
Muriel Rukeyser
#17. 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
#18. He wanted Ty with him, wanted him badly. Needed him as a partner, and not just at work. Craved him as a lover more than he'd ever jonesed over heroin. Connected with him in so many ways that Zane couldn't see a way to untangle himself and didn't even want to try
Abigail Roux
#19. My motto in life is 'If you think it, you can do it' and if we all apply that thought we can end hunger the world over.
Dionne Warwick
#20. 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
#23. 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
#24. Losing some money is an inevitable part of investing, and there's nothing you can do to prevent it. But to be an intelligent investor, you must take responsibility for ensuring that you never lose most or all of your money.
Benjamin Graham
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.
Alexander Pope
#28. They talked about each others' houses, and characters, and families
just as the Joneses do about the Smiths.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#29. You know, I've taught philosophy for years and one argues in the hypothetical all the time.
Bill Bennett
#30. Librarians see themselves as the guardians of the First Amendment. You got a thousand Mother Joneses at the barricades! I love the librarians, and I am grateful for them!
Michael Moore
#31. He gave me something that day ... something I wanted to protect. And when it was taken from me I learned how small I was. I vowed to never again care for someone so much, I couldn't bear to lose them.
Kazuya Minekura
#32. 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
#33. You have a place to live in this world which no other man can occupy; hence no competitors.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#34. 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
#35. Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.
Quentin Crisp