Quotes About Possessions

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.

My thinking is my possession; always ready to exchange for a better version of that.

Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little.

I didn't mind what she called me, what anybody called me. But this was the room I had to live in. It was all I had in the way of a home. In it was everything that was mine, that had any association for me, any past, anything that took the place of a family. Not much: a few books, pictures, radio, chessmen, old letters, stuff like that. Nothing. Such as they were, they had all my memories.

Never be ruled by possessions, and never, ever make wealth more important to you than your self-respect and your dignity. - Lady Taylor

If you know what you have, you know what to throw away.

But here's the thing--no matter how many possessions you have, you never feel secure. As soon as you get one thing, there is always something else you need.

Here's the thing. No matter how many possessions you have, you never feel secure. As soon as you get one thing, there's always something else you need. And also, you have the added problem of worrying about losing the stuff you already have. Some of the most insecure people I know are multimillionaires. True security can only come from knowing who you are and what you are here to do.

Buy what you don't have yet, or what you really want, which can be mixed with what you already own. Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping

Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them.

That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but which he can afford to lose.

Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes.

A man's contentment is in his mind, not in the extent of his possessions. Alexander the Great, with all the world at his feet, cries for another world to conquer.

What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?

A man can't do what he likes with his coverts.

Fie on possession, But if a man be vertuous withal.

When all men have what belongs to them, it cannot bee much. [When all men have what belongs to them, it cannot be much.]

Every man in the back of their minds would like to own a bar or a racehorse.

I own no property and yet I feel that I am perhaps the richest man in the world.

Peace-not passion, not personal possessions, not personal accomplishments nor happiness-is one of the greatest blessings a man can receive.

Philosophy teaches a man that he can't take it with him; taxes teach him he can't leave it behind either.

A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.

Riches too increase, and the maddening craving for gold, So that men ever seek for more, that they may have the most.

One who knew how to appropriate the true value of this world would be the poorest man in it. The poor rich man! all he has is whathe has bought.