Possession Quotes
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My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, Good fences make good neighbors. (Quote by - Robert Lee Frost)
This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected - in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life. (Quote by - Thomas Mann)
For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you. (Quote by - Charles Kingsley)
Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good? (Quote by - Bible)
There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots. (Quote by - Miguel de Cervantes)
Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true, Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne'er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov'd and loving me. (Quote by - Abraham Cowley)
It may be said of them [the Hollanders], as of the Spaniards, that the sun never sets upon their Dominions. (Quote by - Thomas Gage)
An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit. (Quote by - Pliny The Younger)
When I behold what pleasure is Pursuit, What life, what glorious eagerness it is, Then mark how full Possession falls from this, How fairer seems the blossom than the fruit,I am perplext, and often stricken mute. Wondering which attained the higher bliss, The wing'd insect, or the chrysalis It thrust aside with unreluctant foot. (Quote by - Thomas Bailey Aldrich)
We now have evidence that Saddam Hussein is in possession of cartoon trucks. Because (they) are cartoon trucks, that means that they can fall into a very deep canyon with an anvil attached to them and still survive. (Quote by - Neal Pollack)
It is a little remarkable, that - though disinclined to talk overmuch of myself and my affairs at the fireside, and to my personal friends - an autobiographical impulse should twice in my life have taken possession of me, in addressing the public. (Quote by - Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance; but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. (Quote by - Matthew)
Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together (Quote by - Robert Reich)
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship. (Quote by - Epicurus)
A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender. (Quote by - Sir Thomas Browne)
Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession, many. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
I will that every man be entitled to his hunting in wood and in field of his possession, and let everyone forego my hunting. (Quote by - Canute)
It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him. (Quote by - Max Planck)
It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The one is sure and the other is not. (Quote by - Jean de la Fontaine)
Property has its duties as well as its rights. (Quote by - Thomas Drummond)
A quote is a personal possession and you have no right to change it. (Quote by - Ray Cave)
The English, a spirited nation, claim the empire of the sea; the French, a calmer nation, claim that of the air. (Quote by - Louis XVIII)
The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservation and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The proud daughter of that monarch to whom when it grows [elsewhere] the sun never sets. (Quote by - Giambattista Guarini)
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. 'Pride and Prejudice' (Quote by - Jane Austen)
Freedom is a possession of inestimable value. (Quote by - Cicero)
Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry. (Quote by - Samuel Smiles)
Of a rich man who was mean and niggardly, he said, That man does not possess his estate, but his estate possesses him. (Quote by - Laertius Diogenes)
Attachment is forbidden. Possession is forbidden. Compassion, which I would define as unconditional love, is essential to a Jedi's life. So, you might say that we are encouraged to love. [on loving Padme Amidala] (Quote by - Anakin Skywalker)
The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a comtempt for mere external show (Quote by - James A Garfield)
For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. (Quote by - Bible)
Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future. (Quote by - Coco Chanel)
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you. (Quote by - André Gide)
Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air! (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy. (Quote by - Lao Tzu)
Britannia needs no bulwarks No towers along the steep; Her march is o'er the mountain wave, Her home is on the deep. (Quote by - Thomas Campbell)
When we have not what we love, we must love what we have. (Quote by - Roger de Bussy)
There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source. (Quote by - Brigham Young)
Exclusive property is a theft against nature. (Quote by - Pilpay)
Every right implies a responsibility. Every opportunity, an obligation. Every possession, a duty. (Quote by - John D Rockefeller)
It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous (Quote by - Livy)
It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of truth. (Quote by - John Locke)
Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things. (Quote by - Bible)
Wouldst thou both eat they cake and have it? (Quote by - George Edward Herbert)
I die,--but first I have possess'd, And come what may, I have been bless'd. (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)
Possession diminishes perception of value, immediately. (Quote by - John Updike)
That possession was the strongest tenure of the law. (Quote by - Bidpai)
What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss. (Quote by - Epicurus)
This is the truth as I see it, my dear, Out in the wind and the rain: They who have nothing have little to fear, Nothing to lose or to gain. (Quote by - Madison Julius Cawein)
