Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession -… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The body is there because the mind seeks desires through the body; desires cannot be fulfilled without the body. You can be… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There are two ways to be rich - one in the abundance of your possessions and the other in the fewness of… — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
Earthly possessions are not what you came here to gather. Do not worry about your earthly possessions. Place your attention on your… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
When Joseph received the revelation that we have in our possession concerning the [baptism of the] dead, the subject was opened to… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
The common law of chattels, that is to say, the law ultimately adopted by the King's courts for the regulation of disputes… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
An appreciation for high fashion does not preclude possession of common sense. — Tasha Alexander Copy Share Image
One is not rich by what one owns, but more by what one is able to do without with dignity. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Nothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at the bottom is the true character of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Painfully to attain possession of what we do not want, and then painfully to waste our days in attempting to rid ourselves… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
Riches are always over estimated; the enjoyment they give is more in the pursuit than the possession. — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers....Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island. — William Golding Copy Share Image
I later discovered that in order to be a good athlete one must care intensely what is happening with a ball, even… — Haven Kimmel Copy Share Image
Naturally, if you love somebody, you do want to see their face every now and again, but that's not a condition of… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
A lot of people don't think about it, but the Bible has every horror element that you can imagine. It's got the… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
Giving up everything must mean giving over everything to kingdom purposes, surrendering everything to further the one central cause, loosening our grip… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
Every form of strength is also a form of weakness,” he once wrote. “Pretty girls tend to become insufferable because, being pretty,… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Scientists are entitled to be proud of their accomplishments, and what accomplishments can they call 'theirs' except the things they have done… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
The whole message of the piece was that possessions are transient. You don't know if you are going to be able to… — J.H. Wyman Copy Share Image
What Music expresses is eternal, infinite, and ideal; she expresses not the passion, love, desire, of this or that individual in this… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
Grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in harmony with my… — Plato Copy Share Image
I wanted to visit the Capitol of our country, the center of our great civilization that stands like the sun in the… — Marietta Holley Copy Share Image
O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
