Ownership Quotes

Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being.

~ William James

The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it.

~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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

~ John Vanbrugh

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.

~ E. M. Forster

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

~ Anonymous

You must lose a fly to catch a trout.

~ George Herbert

He who wants a rose must respect the thorn.

~ Persian Proverb

A man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

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

~ Marie Elizabeth Kane

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

~ Wyndham Lewis

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants and to serve them one's self?

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

To make a claim of ownership implies a claim against others. That is, others must refrain from interfering with your use of that thing. As such the very act of the body occupying its standing room is to make a claim against others because only one body can occupy the space at a time.

~ Daniel Alexander Brackins

Home ownership is the cornerstone of a strong community.

~ Rick Renzi

Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity.

~ Cathy Mcmorris Rodgers