Possession Quotes - Page 4

Resolve to treat the things in your possession as belonging to others.

I own records that have the power to make me cry. Records to be by or with - truly precious possessions. It is the ambition of the Midnight Runners to make records of this value.

The use of our possessions shows us up for what we actually are.

There is one possession that can never be taken away as long as you will not allow it to be taken, and that is your word.

It was not so much that I was doing mathematics, but rather that mathematics had taken possession of me.

My disenchantment? Oh no, my dear, there are no disenchantments, merely progressions and styles of possession. To exist is to be spellbound.

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.

The use of riches is better than their possession.

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

Our children are the only possessions we can take to heaven.

Beauty is a possession not our own.

If one's reputation is a possession, then of all my possessions, my reputation means most to me.

I am a creature of my pen. My pen is the best of me.

Slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession.

One of my favorite writers is Michel de Montaigne. My wife gave me a beautiful 17th-century edition of Montaigne's essays translated by John Florio. That's probably my most precious possession.

I was aware that on my skill as a painter would depend the physical and moral possession of the model.

As soon as women become ours we are no longer theirs.

Felicity is in possession, happiness in anticipation.

You can never love anyone to your own detriment. That is not love, that is possession, control, fear, or a combination of them all.

Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.

Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions.

Possession is nine-tenths of the law.

Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.

Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; / I am your friend, but never your possession.

Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit.