| Author |
Quotes |
| Abraham Cowley | 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. |
| Bible | As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things. |
| Bible | Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good? |
| Bible | 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. |
| Bidpai | That possession was the strongest tenure of the law. |
| Bidpai | Exclusive property is a theft against nature. |
| Charles Kingsley | Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you. |
| Charles Mackay | Cleon hath ten thousand acres,-- Ne'er a one have I; Cleon dwelleth in a place,-- In a cottage I. |
| Giambattista Guarini | The proud daughter of that monarch to whom when it grows the sun never sets. |
| Jean de la Fontaine | 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. |
| Laertius Diogenes | Of a rich man who was mean and niggardly, he said, "That man does not possess his estate, but his estate possesses him." |
| Louis XVIII | The English, a spirited nation, claim the empire of the sea; the French, a calmer nation, claim that of the air. |
| Madison Julius Cawein | 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. |
| Robert Lee Frost | 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." |
| Thomas Campbell | Britannia needs no bulwarks No towers along the steep; Her march is o'er the mountain wave, Her home is on the deep. |
| Thomas Drummond | Property has its duties as well as its rights. |
| Thomas Gage | It may be said of them , as of the Spaniards, that the sun never sets upon their Dominions. |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered. |
| George Herbert | Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it? |
| James Russell Lowell | Aspiration sees only one side of every question, possession, many. |
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