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When I behold what pleasure is Pursuit, What life, what glorious eagerness it is, Then mark how full Possession falls from this, How fairer seems the blossom than the fruit,-- I am perplext, and often stricken mute. Wondering which attained the higher bliss, The wing'd insect, or the chrysalis It thrust aside with unreluctant foot. - Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Sonnet--Pursuit and Possession Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need. - Saint Thomas Aquinas Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet. - Honore de Balzac As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things. - Bible, II Corinthians (ch. VI, v. 10) Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good? - Bible, Matthew (ch. XX, v. 15) 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. - Bible, Matthew (ch. XXV, v. 29) That possession was the strongest tenure of the law. - Bidpai (Pilpay), The Cat and the Two Birds (chap. v, fable iv) Exclusive property is a theft against nature. [Fr., La propriete exclusive est un vol dans la nature.] - Jean Pierre Brissot de Warville When we have not what we love, we must love what we have. [Fr., Quand on n'a pas ce que l'on aime, Il faut aimer ce que l'on a.] - Roger de Bussy-Rabutin (de Bussy), Lettre a Mme. de Sevigne I die,--but first I have possess'd, And come what may, I have been bless'd. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), The Giaour (l. 1,114) Britannia needs no bulwarks No towers along the steep; Her march is o'er the mountain wave, Her home is on the deep. - Thomas Campbell, Ye Mariners of England Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air! - Thomas Carlyle, Essays--Richter 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. - Madison Julius Cawein, The Bellman What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered. [Lat., Male parta, male dilabuntur.] - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short), Philippicoe (II, 27) 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. - Abraham Cowley, The Wish (st. 2) Of a rich man who was mean and niggardly, he said, "That man does not possess his estate, but his estate possesses him." - Laertius Diogenes, Lives of Eminent Philosophers (Bion, III) Property has its duties as well as its rights. - Thomas Drummond, Letter to the Tipperary Magistrates 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." - Robert Lee Frost, Mending Wall It may be said of them [the Hollanders], as of the Spaniards, that the sun never sets upon their Dominions. - Thomas Gage, New Survey of the West Indies--Epistle Dedicatory, London, 1648 For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort. [Ger., Denn was man schwarz auf weiss besitzt, Kann man getrost nach Hause tragen.] - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust (I, 4, 42) The proud daughter of that monarch to whom when it grows [elsewhere] the sun never sets. [Lat., Altera figlia Di quel monarea a cui Ne anco, quando annotta, il Sol tramonta.] - Giambattista Guarini (Giovanni Battista Guarini), Pastor Fido, on the marriage of the Duke of Savoy with Catherine of Austria Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it? - George Herbert, The Church--The Size Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you. - Charles Kingsley, Saint's Tragedy (I, 4) 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. [Fr., Un tiens vaut, ce dit-on, mieux que deux tu l'auras. L'un est sur, l'autre ne l'est pas.] - Jean de la Fontaine, Fables (V, 3) The English, a spirited nation, claim the empire of the sea; the French, a calmer nation, claim that of the air. [Fr., Les Anglais, nation trop fiere S'arrogent l'empire des mers; Les Francais, nation legere, S'emparent de celui des airs.] - Louis XVIII, said in 1783 when he was Comte de Provence during period of Montgolfier aeronautical experiments Displaying page 1 of 3 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3
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