Possession - Maxioms.comQuotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxiomshttp://maxioms.comen-usCopyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64865<![CDATA[Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession.rn ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64364<![CDATA[Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it? ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47767<![CDATA[Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47768<![CDATA[It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47769<![CDATA[The English, a spirited nation, claim the empire of the sea; the French, a calmer nation, claim that of the ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47770<![CDATA[Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession, many. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47771<![CDATA[Cleon hath ten thousand acres,-- Ne'er a one have I; Cleon dwelleth in a place,-- In a ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47772<![CDATA[What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered. [Lat., Male parta, male dilabuntur.] ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47759<![CDATA[Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47760<![CDATA[Of a rich man who was mean and niggardly, he said, "That man does not possess his estate, but his ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47761<![CDATA[Property has its duties as well as its rights. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47762<![CDATA[My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47763<![CDATA[It may be said of them [the Hollanders], as of the Spaniards, that the sun never sets upon their Dominions. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47764<![CDATA[For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort. [Ger., Denn was man schwarz ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47765<![CDATA[The proud daughter of that monarch to whom when it grows [elsewhere] the sun never sets. [Lat., Altera figlia ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47766<![CDATA[When I behold what pleasure is Pursuit, What life, what glorious eagerness it is, Then mark how full Possession ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47750<![CDATA[As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47751<![CDATA[Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47752<![CDATA[For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47753<![CDATA[That possession was the strongest tenure of the law. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47754<![CDATA[Exclusive property is a theft against nature. [Fr., La propriete exclusive est un vol dans la nature.] ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47755<![CDATA[When we have not what we love, we must love what we have. [Fr., Quand on n'a pas ce que ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47756<![CDATA[I die,--but first I have possess'd, And come what may, I have been bless'd. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47757<![CDATA[This is the truth as I see it, my dear, Out in the wind and the rain: They who ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47758<![CDATA[Britannia needs no bulwarks No towers along the steep; Her march is o'er the mountain wave, Her ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13910<![CDATA[Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13912