Quotes About Ownership

Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them.

A man may own a ship, but unless he is captain of a crew he goes where the ship goes.

Pride seems tew be quite equally distributed; the man who owns the carriage and the man who drives it seem tew have it just alike.

This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.

A clear stream, a long horizon, a forest wilderness and open sky - these are man's most ancient possessions. In a modern society, they are his most priceless.

But married once, a man is stak'd or pown'd, and cannot graze beyond his own hedge.

He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that.

No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.

A man complained that on his way home to dinner he had every day to pass through that long field of his neighbor's. I advised him to buy it, and it would never seem long again.

Property in man, always morally unjust, has become nationally dangerous.

A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.

A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

If a man is running down the street with everything you own, you won't let him get away. That's tackling.

Hurry no man's cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself

A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.

In my opinion, any man who can afford to buy a newspaper should not be allowed to own one.

Some men think that the globe is a sponge that God puts into their hands to squeeze for their own garden or flower-pot.

The party should stand for a constantly wider diffusion of property. That is the greatest social and economic security that can come to free men. It makes men free.

My father owned pit bulls when I was young. He sometimes fought them. My brother and a lot of the men in my community owned pit bulls as well: sometimes they fought them for honor, never for money.

The Romans believed that what no man controls, no man can own. Justinian, writing in the sixth century AD, said that the air, flowing water, the sea and the seashore were common to all.

Actually no person owns anything. All belongs to God, but while man is on earth he has the God-given right of possession.

A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?

That man does not possess his estate, but his estate possesses him.

There is one excuse for every mistake a man can make, but only one. When a fellow makes the same mistake twice he's got to throw up both hands and own up to carelessness or cussedness.