acquiring possessions Quotes

That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.

She said, "Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don't need?" I said, "It depends on what it means to need.

Paines to get, care to keep, feare to lose.

Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best; and he answered as I would have done when he said, "Somebody else's".

We humans are more concerned with having than with being.

Shopping and buying and getting and having comprise the Great American Addiction. No one is immune. When the underclass riots in this country they don't kill policemen and politicians, they steal merchandise. How embarrassing.

You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for... and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you.

With emptie hands men may no haukes lure.

If you live in a material universe where acquiring things is very important to you, then family is an absolute deterrent to maintaining that sort of a world, because family involves values like affection, and sympathy, and passion, and types of pleasure that lead nowhere in a material sense.

Modern man, if he dared to be articulate about his concept of heaven, would describe a vision which would look like the biggest department store in the world, showing new things and gadgets, and himself having plenty of money with which to buy them.

In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of dispossession.

To buy deare is not bounty.

The thing about new things is you feel new when you buy them, you feel as though you are somebody different because you own something different. We are our possessions, you know. There are people who get addicted to buying new stuff. Things. Piles and piles of things. But the new things become old things so quickly. We need new things to replace the old things.

If you want it, boys, get it here, thing.

Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed.