POSSESSION

Related Subjects: Law, Property

1. Men would live exceedingly quiet if those two words, mine and thine were taken away.—ANAXAGORAS
   

2. 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, Matthew 25:29
   

3. You cannot eat your cake and have your cake; and store's no sore.—CERVANTES, Don Quixote
   

4. What a man has, so much he's sure of.—CERVANTES, Don Quixote
   

5. Possession is eleven points in, the law.—COLLEY CIBBER, Woman's Wit
   

6. The use of the sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession thereof.—QUEEN ELIZABETH
   

7. Much will have more.—EMERSON, Society and Solitude
   

8. This, and this alone, I contend for—that he who makes should have; that he who saves should enjoy.—HENRY GEORGE, Social Problems
   

9. I can't, I trow,
   Both eat my cake and have it too.—ROBERT HEATH, Occasional Poems
   

10. Bliss in possession will not last;
    Remembered joys are never past;
    At once the fountain, stream, and sea,
    They were, they are, they yet shall be.—JAMES MONTGOMERY, The Little Cloud
    

11. Possession is the grave of bliss. No sooner do we own some great book than we want another.—A. EDWARD NEWTON, Amenities of Book-Collecting
    

12. An object in possession seldom attains the same charm that it had in pursuit.—PLINY THE YOUNGER
    

13. Better to have than to wish.—Proverb
    

14. It is better to have a little than nothing.—PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Sententiae
    

15. It is Preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.—BERTRAND RUSSELL, Principles of Social Reconstruction
    

16. To have may be taken from us, to have had, never.—SENECA, Epistulae ad Lucilium
    

17. An ill-favoured thing, sir, but mine own.—SHAKESPEARE, As You Like It
    

18. All things that are,
    Are with more spirit chased than enjoy'd.—SHAKESPEARE, The Merchant of Venice
    

19. For it so falls out
    That what we have we prize not to the worth
    Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost,
    Why, then we rack the value; then we find
    The virtue that possession would not show us
    Whiles it was ours.—SHAKESPEARE, Much Ado About Nothing
    

20. They well deserve to have
    That know the strong'st and surest way to get.—SHAKESPEARE, Richard II
    

21. Things that I longed for in vain and things that I got—let them pass. Let me but truly possess the things I spurned and overlooked.—TAGORE, Gitanjali
    

22. This is the happiest of mortals, for he is above everything he possesses.—VOLTAIRE, Candide
    

23. The ain't nothin' truer in the Bible 'n that sayin' thet them that has gits.—E. N. WESTCOTT, David Harum