Win The Life

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men? - Natalie Clifford Barney

 

Liberty: One of imagination's most precious possessions. (The Devil's Dictionary) - Ambrose Bierce

 

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. - Epictetus

 

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else that prevents us from living freely and nobly. - Bertrand Russell

 

Liberals feel un-worthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen. - Mort Sahl

 

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. - Khalil Gibran

 

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions. - Plutarch [Ploutarchos]

 

Man should not consider his material possessions his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need. - Saint Thomas Aquinas

 

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul. - Democritus

 

To have little is to possess.-Lao-tzu

 

Possession is eleven points in the law.-Cibber, Colley

 

The wise man carries his possessions within him.-Bias

 

Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.-Ruskin, John

 

It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.-Scudder, Vida D.

 

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.-Pliny the Younger

 

Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.-Proust, Marcel

 

I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.-erence

 

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.-Rochefoucauld, Francois de La

 

I love stuff as much as the next guy, but I?ve come to understand that, regardless of the cost of acquiring it, the price of having it is freedom.-Wainwright, Colleen

The wise man carries his possessions within him.-Bias

 

The English, a spirited nation, claim the empire of the sea; the French, a calmer nation, claim that of the air.-Louis XVIII

 

Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession, many.-James Russell Lowell

 

Cleon hath ten thousand acres,-- Ne'er a one have I; Cleon dwelleth in a place,-- In a cottage I.-Charles Mackay

 

Possession is eleven points in the law.-Colley Cibber

 

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.-Francois de La Rochefoucauld

 

Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.-John Ruskin

 

To have little is to possess.
To have plenty is to be perplexed.-Lao-tzu

 

Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.-Marcel Proust

 

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.-Pliny the Younger

 

I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.-Terence

 

It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.-Vida D. Scudder

 

As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.-Bible

 

The proud daughter of that monarch to whom when it grows [elsewhere] the sun never sets.-Giambattista Guarini

 

Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it?-George Herbert

 

Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you.-Charles Kingsley

 

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.-Jean de la FontaineIs it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?-Bible

 

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.-Madison Julius Cawein

 

What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.-Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

 

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.-Bible

That possession was the strongest tenure of the law.-Bidpai

 

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.-Robert Lee Frost

 

It may be said of them [the Hollanders], as of the Spaniards, that the sun never sets upon their Dominions.-Thomas Gage

 

Exclusive property is a theft against nature.-Bidpai

 

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!-Thomas Carlyle

 

Of a rich man who was mean and niggardly, he said, That man does not possess his estate, but his estate possesses him.-Laertius Diogenes

 

When we have not what we love, we must love what we have.-Roger de Bussy-Rabutin

 

I die,--but first I have possess'd, And come what may, I have been bless'd.-Lord Byron

 

Britannia needs no bulwarks No towers along the steep; Her march is o'er the mountain wave, Her home is on the deep.-Thomas Campbell

 

Property has its duties as well as its rights.-Thomas Drummond

 

For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe