Popular Quotes

Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing. - Winston Churchill Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. - Benjamin Franklin We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. - Henry David Thoreau Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear. - Martin Luther King, Jr. Marriage is one long conversation checkered by disputes. - Robert Louis Stevenson I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe. - Albert Einstein

You got a harem of seventy girls, you don't get to know any of them very well.

- Billy Rose

It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.

- Bertrand Russell

Ownership is to fear (tener es temer)

- Spanish proverb

Broad acres are a patent of nobility; and no man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is 4000 miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.

- Charles Dudley Warner

The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.

- Le Roi Jones

Whatever is not nailed down is mine. Whatever I can pry loose is not nailed down.

- Collis P. Huntington

I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.

- Fred Allen

Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being.

- William James

The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it.

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it is intolerable.

- John Vanbrugh

Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.

- E. M. Forster

Keep a thing seven years and you will find a use for it.

- Anonymous

You must lose a fly to catch a trout.

- George Herbert

He who wants a rose must respect the thorn.

- Persian proverb

A man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

I feel when people say 'bigger and better' they should say 'bigger and badder'.

- Marie Elizabeth Kane

People are so overwhelmed with the prestige of their instruments that they consider their personal judgement of hardly any account.

- Wyndham Lewis

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

- Ralph Waldo Emerson