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"If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him." »Francis Bacon
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"We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess." »Mark Twain
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"One watches them on the seashore, all the people, and there is something pathetic, almost wistful in them, as if they wished their lives did not add up to this scaly nullity of possession, but as if they could not escape. It is a dragon that has devoured us all: these obscene, scaly houses, this insatiable struggle and desire to possess, to possess always and in spite of everything, this need to be an owner, lest one be owned. It is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease. One feels a sort of madness come over one, as if the world had become hell. But it is only superimposed: it is only a temporary disease. It can be cleaned away." »D. H. Lawrence
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"We know better than we do. We do not yet possess ourselves." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want." »Terence, Eunuchus
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"I have everything, yet have nothing and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want." »Terence
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"To have little is to possess.
To have plenty is to be perplexed." »Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu
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"He does not possess wealth it possesses him." »Benjamin Franklin
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"To have little is to possess. To have plenty is to be perplexed." »Lao Tzu
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"He alone is poor who does not possess knowledge." »The Talmud
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"To find something you can enjoy is far better than finding something you can possess." »Glenn Holm
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"Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you." »Malcolm Cowley
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"Whatever we possess becomes of double value When we have the opportunity of sharing it with others." »Bouilly
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"Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it." »Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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"A man cannot possess anything that is better than a good wife, or anything that is worse than a bad one." »Simonides
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"Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess." »Edna Woolman Chase
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"Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it." »La Rochefoucauld
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"Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess." »Karl Kraus
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"This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess." »Rainer Maria Rilke
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"Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away." »Dag Hammarskjld
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"This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love the more they give, the more they possess." »Rainer Maria Rilke
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"All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price." »Juvenal
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"If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be much envy in the world." »Young
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"We are born to inquire into truth it belongs to a greater to possess it." »Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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"Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire." »Anwar el Sadat
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"Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility." »George Orwell
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"“The innate power you possess to achieve your dreams is immeasurable."" »Steve Maraboli
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"The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it." »Lord Macaulay
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"Use the talents you possess -- for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except for the best." »Unknown
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| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
