Possessions Quotes

Those that much covet are with gain so fond,For what they have not, that which they possessThey scatter and unloose it from their bond,And so, by hoping more, they have but less;Or, gaining more, the profit of excessIs but to surfeit, and such griefs sustain,That they prove bankrupt in this poor-rich gain.

William Shakespeare

Men have looked away from themselves and at things so long that they have come to esteem the religious, learned and civil institutions as guards of property, and they deprecate assaults on these, because they feel them to be assaults on property. They measure their esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Among my most prized possessions are the words that I have never spoken.

Orson Scott Card

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

Albert Einstein

What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

Henry David Thoreau