Quotes About Possession

A field is the most just possession for men. For what nature requires it carefully bears: barley, oil, wine, figs, honey. Silver-plate and purple will do for the tragedians, not for life.

Man loves most that which is his own.

Men will tell you sometimes that "money's hard." That shows it was not made to eat, I say.... Some of those who sank with the steamer the other day found out that money was heavy too.

Property in land is as indefensible as property in man.

The possession of a great many things, even the best of things, tends to blind one to the real value of anything.

Ask a man how much a dollar is worth, and he'll tell you, 'Almost nothing.' Try to take a dollar away from him, and you'll get yourself a fight.

Kate Daniels, trained negotiator. When in possession of some valuable information, give it away to the first sexy man you see with no guarantee of return.

Sinful man really hopes when he no longer has anything of his own.

It is not the fact that a man has riches which keeps him from the kingdom of heaven, but the fact that riches have him.

Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any possession.

The fool says, "These are my sons, this is my land, this is my money." In reality, the fool does not own himself, much less sons, land, or money.

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.

You have my soul and I have your money

Riches are always over estimated; the enjoyment they give is more in the pursuit than the possession.

Borrow my umbrellas, my clothes, my money, and I will likely not think of them again. But borrow my books and I will be on your track like a bloodhound until they are returned.

I'd go stupid collecting and counting my money.

Maybe the life I think I'm living is a paranoid delusion...Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes.

You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.

The money that we possess is the instrument of liberty, that which we lack and strive to obtain is the instrument of slavery.

I think I'm actually quite a materialistic person, I value what it takes to make a car or build a nice house. Money does change things, but how it changes people depends on how they react to it.

I wouldn't sell my bike for all the money in the world. Not for a hundred million, trillion, billion dollars!

Money can't buy happiness but it'll sure keep a mess of grief off your front porch.

Money is neither god nor devil, that it should make one noble and another vile. It is an accident, and if honestly possessed, may pass from you to me, or from me to you, without a stain.

Money and goods are certainly the best of references.