Ownership Quotes

The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it is intolerable.

Everything God has given to us is “for rent.” We can only manage what we have but the right of ownership belongs to God.

I have gathered a posy of other men's flowers and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own.

Nobody ever washes a rental car.

The best compliment someone can give me is stealing my idea and making it their own.

You got a harem of seventy girls you don't get to know any of them very well.

Ownership is to fear (tener es temer)

Whatever is not nailed down is mine. Whatever I can pry loose is not nailed down.

The want of a thing is perplexing enough but the possession of it is intolerable.

Our life on earth is and ought to be material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.

Keep a thing seven years and you will find a use for it.

I feel when people say 'bigger and better' they should say 'bigger and badder'.

People are so overwhelmed with the prestige of their instruments that they consider their personal judgement of hardly any account.