“ Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. ”
- Andrew Carnegie- Copy
- 3.8K
“ The vast majority of homeowners have a sizable equity cushion with which to absorb a potential decline in house prices. ”
- Alan Greenspan- Copy
- 107
“ Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder. ”
- Thornton Wilder- Copy
- 760
“ Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to a new power as a benefactor. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 3.5K
“ If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost. ”
- Lloyd C. Douglas- Copy
- 1.9K
“ The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are — 1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and, 3. Hope to all. ”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge- Copy
- 2.9K
“ The landlady and Tam grew gracious Wi' favours secret, sweet and precious. ”
- Robert Burns- Copy
- 1.8K
“ We may say, vices wait on us in the course of our life as the landlords with whom we successively lodge, and if we traveled the road twice over, I doubt if our experience would make us avoid them. ”
- La Rochefoucauld- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us. ”
- Leonardo da Vinci- Copy
- 1.4K
“ There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves. ”
- Clifton Fadiman- Copy
- 1.8K
“ There are moments when we in the British press can show extraordinary sensitivity; these moments usually coincide with the death of a proprietor, or a proprietor's wife. ”
- Craig Brown- Copy
- 1.7K
“ The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated. ”
- Richard Cobden- Copy
- 3.3K
“ In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back… ”
- Simone Weil- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Today, a skilled manager makes more than the owner. And owners fight each other to get the skilled managers. ”
- Mikhail Khodorkovsky- Copy
- 3.4K
“ By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By proletariat the class of modern wage laborers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor power in order to live. ”
- Friedrich Engels- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Like medieval peasants, computer manufacturers and millions of users are locked in a seemingly eternal lease with their evil landlord, who comes around every two years to collect billions of dollars of taxes in return for mediocre services. ”
- Mark Harris- Copy
- 521
“ A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. ”
- Louis L’Amour- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners. ”
- E. Joseph Crossman- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design. ”
- Oprah Winfrey- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner. ”
- Walter R. Rutherford- Copy
- 128
“ A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it. ”
- Victor Hugo- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of. ”
- Jonathan Swift- Copy
- 3.8K
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