Barristers Association Quotes & Sayings

We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions. — Sydney J. Harris

The more necessary a thing is for living beings, the more easily it is found and the cheaper it is; the less necessary it is, the rarer and dearer it is. — Maimonides

Our angels often come to us in the times when we are unconscious because those are the times we are free of the continual thoughts of our mind. It is here that we remember who we really are. We remember who we are in our soul. We are greater than the physical life we have been living on earth. — Kate McGahan

We'll tell him his mother waits for him in heaven, I suppose."
"Is that a lie?"
"It's what we tell fools and children." She sighed. "Postulating a heaven gives man an out for having been unable to retain the paradise he was given here on earth. — Sheri S. Tepper

They are fond of fun and therefore witty, wit being well-bred insolence. — Aristotle.

I lose and find myself in the long water. I am gathered together once more. — Theodore Roethke