"I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very good but a diamond and a sapphire bracelet lasts forever."

Materialism, Gentlemen, Kissing, May

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"I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very good but a diamond and a sapphire bracelet lasts forever."

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"Memory is more indelible than ink."

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"Gentlemen prefer blondes."

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"I once witnessed more ardent emotions between men at an Elks' Rally in Pasadena than they could ever have felt for the type of woman available to an Elk."

Man, Men, Emotions, Woman

"I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very good but a diamond and a sapphire bracelet lasts forever."

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"I always think that the most delightful thing about traveling is to always be running into Americans and to always feel at home."

Home, Americans, Running, Traveling

"On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach."

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"The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed."

Life, America, Charm

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"You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

Materialism, Life, Comfort, Attachment, Ownership

"God makes and apparel shapes: but it's money that finishes the man."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

Materialism, Appearance, Money, Character, Identity

"It is good to have wealth. It is great to leave in comfort. It is awesome to obtain possessions but, don't be too eager for material possessions for the same material possessions that bring joy are the same possessions that bring sorrow and pain and also leave a big had I know on our minds."

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

Materialism, Wealth, Comfort, Joy, Sorrow

"If the only thing keeping your partner in relationship with you is your money, then be prepared to lose that person to someone else with more money than you."

Edmond Mbiaka, American Author

Materialism, Relationship, Money, Values, Love

"Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

Materialism, Money, Escape, Perfection, Wealth

"Old-fashioned people think you can have a soul without money. They think the less money you have, the more soul you have. Young people nowadays know better. A soul is a very expensive thing to keep: much more so than a motor car."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Materialism, Soul, Money, Values, Cost

"He had allowed the advertisers to multiply his wants; he had learned to equate happiness with possessions, and prosperity with money to spend in a shop."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

Materialism, Consumer, Happiness, Money, Desire

"In a materialistic society, man is likely to value the opinion of a rich man over that of a poor one; even when coming to opinions that have absolutely nothing to do with moneymaking."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Materialism, Society, Power, Truth, Regret

"What good is money if it can't buy happiness?"

Agatha Christie, English Writer

Materialism, Money, Happiness, Values, Wealth

"What keeps the so-called consumer society going is the fact that trying to find yourself through things doesn't work. The ego satisfaction is short-lived and so you keep looking for more and keep buying and consuming."

Eckhart Tolle, German Author

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"Memory is more indelible than ink."

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"I once witnessed more ardent emotions between men at an Elks' Rally in Pasadena than they could ever have felt for the type of woman available to an Elk."

"I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very good but a diamond and a sapphire bracelet lasts forever."

"I always think that the most delightful thing about traveling is to always be running into Americans and to always feel at home."

"On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach."

"Fate keeps on happening."

"Does this boat go to Europe, France?"

"Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse."

"The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed."

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"God makes and apparel shapes: but it's money that finishes the man."

"It is good to have wealth. It is great to leave in comfort. It is awesome to obtain possessions but, don't be too eager for material possessions for the same material possessions that bring joy are the same possessions that bring sorrow and pain and also leave a big had I know on our minds."

"If the only thing keeping your partner in relationship with you is your money, then be prepared to lose that person to someone else with more money than you."

"Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping."

"Old-fashioned people think you can have a soul without money. They think the less money you have, the more soul you have. Young people nowadays know better. A soul is a very expensive thing to keep: much more so than a motor car."

"He had allowed the advertisers to multiply his wants; he had learned to equate happiness with possessions, and prosperity with money to spend in a shop."

"In a materialistic society, man is likely to value the opinion of a rich man over that of a poor one; even when coming to opinions that have absolutely nothing to do with moneymaking."

"What good is money if it can't buy happiness?"

"What keeps the so-called consumer society going is the fact that trying to find yourself through things doesn't work. The ego satisfaction is short-lived and so you keep looking for more and keep buying and consuming."