| "Freedom is a possession of inestimable value." »Cicero |
| "Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife." »Euripides |
| "possession is eleven points in the law." »Colley Cibber |
| "Every increased possession loads us with new weariness." »John Ruskin |
| "Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them." »Napoleon Bonaparte |
| "The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession." »Mark Twain |
| "The people are not to be disarmed of their weapons. They are left in full possession of them." »Zachariah Johnson |
| "I believe that every right implies a responsibility every opportunity an obligation every possession a duty." »John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr. |
| "Memory is a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor." »Alexander Smith |
| "An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit." »Pliny the Younger |
| "A man gains no possession better than a good woman, nothing more horrible than a bad one." »Simonides |
| "Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you." »Andr Gide |
| "Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship." »Epicurus |
| "I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there." »Confucius |
| "The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world." »Max Born |
| "The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile virtue is a possession glorious and eternal." »Sallust |
| "We are certainly getting ahead if I am Moses, then you are Joshua and will take possession of the promised land of psychiatry, which I shall only be able to glimpse from afar." »Sigmund Freud |
| "Happiness is not in the mere possession of money it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort." »Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| "The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks." »Thomas Bailey |
| "The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession." »Sallust |
| "...for it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger when the means of insuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion." »Alexander Hamilton |
| "Be not surprised if thou findest thyself in possession of unexpected wealth. Allah will provide an unexpected use for it." »James J. Roche |
| "Desire makes everything blossom possession makes everything wither and fade." »Marcel Proust |
| "Insist on yourself never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession... Do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "To produce things and to rear them, To produce, but not to take possession of them, To act, but not to rely on one's own ability, To lead them, but not to master them - This is called profound and secret virtue." »Lao Tzu |
| "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." »Thomas Mann |
| "Expecting a carjacker or rapist or drug pusher to care that his possession or use of a gun is unlawful is like expecting a terrorist to care that his car bomb is taking up two parking spaces." »Joseph T. Chew |
| "Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy." »The Dhammapada |
| "Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains." »Helen Gahagan Douglas |
| "No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. He, who has nothing, and who himself belongs to another, must be defended by him, whose property he is, and needs no arms. But he, who thinks he is his own master, and has what he can call his own, ought to have arms to defend himself and what he possesses else he lives precariously, and at discretion." »James Burgh |
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