Keeping Up With The Joneses Quotes

“The world is a show and the show is a performance of the wealthy, the beautiful and the fortunate. The invulnerable, the matchless and the exclusive live a life like dazzling fish in a scintillating seascape behind glass. Everybody may admire them, but nobody can touch them. ( “Keeping up with the Joneses” )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Many buy gadgets they don’t really need, with money they don’t have, for people they don’t actually care for, while infringing their corporeal and financial capacities, in order to pay doctors and psychiatrists.( "Keeping up with the Joneses")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“We expect populists to be popular. However, what can be more inconsistent and nonsensical than “unpopular” populists. They start doing everything to fit the job and are gritting their teeth so hard that they shatter them all and are chewed to bits. The moral … let us be genuine, humble, and coherent instead of stumbling from a vainglorious stance into the opposite. ("Keeping up with the Joneses" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“We must not let boredom or greed dictate our lives and exploit our compulsive fantasies or spendthrift desires. ("Keeping up with the Joneses")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“My handbag turned into a diaper bag for the chronically ill.”
― Tracey Berkowitz, Not My Buddy

“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, Tenth of December

“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, The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca

“Look in the mirror rather than at your neighbor.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, chances are it’s getting better care.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Soul Food: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“The most profound life lesson I have learned from 15 years of psychic mediumship work, is how quickly and easily people are forgotten once they depart this life. Yet, so many of us live only to please or impress others while we are here.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“There is a correlation between how much we care about what others think of us and how much time, energy, and money we waste in a month.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“But these were essentially the accoutrements that appeal to all people who are not actually rich but who want to look rich, though all they manage to do is look like each other: damasks, ebony, plants, rugs and bronzes, anything dark and gleaming-everything that all people of a certain class affect so as to be like all other people of a certain class. And his arrangements looked so much like everyone else's that they were unremarkable, though he saw them as something truly distinctive.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych

“Take your life to another level by ignoring the Joneses altogether.⁣”
― Richie Norton

“That Greiner house, now—a typical rung in the social ladder! The man who built it came from a MILIEU where all the dishes are put on the table at once. His facade is a complete architectural meal; if he had omitted a style his friends might have thought the money had given out. Not a bad purchase for Rosedale, though: attracts attention, and awes the Western sight-seer. By and bye he'll get out of that phase, and want something that the crowd will pass and the few pause before.”
― Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth

“The Joneses don’t deserve your attention.⁣⁣”
― Richie Norton

“When you buy a bigger house, another luxury car, or a fancy boat, you are showing people that you used to have money.”
― Christopher Manske, The Prepared Investor: How to Prevent the Next Crisis from Affecting Your Financial Independence

“Don't worry about trying to keep up with the Joneses. They're flat out trying to keep up with their repayments.”
― T.W. Lawless

“It's useless being hung up over something that you can't prove.”
― Fumio Sasaki, Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism

“If you are to be a homeowner, you need to do all these things. You need to keep your exterior tidy. After all, it serves as an outward reflection of the stuff going on inside. Doesn't it? If the walls are crumbling, so must be your marriage. If the paint is chipping, so must be your will to live.”
― David Olimpio, This Is Not a Confession

“As the saying goes, try not to compare your insides to other people's outsides.”
― Emilie Wapnick, How to Be Everything