Owner Quotes

But how foolish it is to set out one's life, when one is not even owner of tomorrow! (Seneca)
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. View quote
Jonathan Swift
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely. View quote
Erma Bombeck
Most men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed off wings where he never ventures. View quote
François Mauriac
Stolen's a strong word. It's copyrighted content that the owner wasn't paid for. View quote
Bill Gates
I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft. View quote
Bill Gates
When it appears that a work has been carried out sumptuously, the owner will be the person to be praised for the great outlay which ha has authorized; when delicately, the master workmen will be approved for his execution; but when proportions and symmetry lend it an imposing effect, then the glory of it will belong to the architect. View quote
Vitruvius
If a man were living in isolation his income would be literally his product. Make him the monarch and owner of an island, and the fruits that he raises and the clothing that he makes constitute, in themselves, his income. This ceases to be true when trading begins. View quote
John Bates Clark
True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know. View quote
Eugenio Montale
A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature. View quote
Loretta Young
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. You have a chance to select from pretty elegant furnishings. (Louis L'Amour)
As a part owner, I'm going to be not only an admirer... but a nervous wreck. View quote
Roger Staubach
A well proportioned mind is one which shows no particular bias one of which we may safely say that it will never cause its owner to be confined as a madman, tortured as a heretic, or crucified as a blasphemer. Also, on the other hand, that it will never cause him to be applauded as a prophet, revered as a priest, or exalted as a king. Its usual blessings are happiness and mediocrity. View quote
Thomas Hardy
The produce of the earth - all that is derived from its surface by the united application of labour, machinery, and capital, is divided among three classes of the community, namely, the proprietor of the land, the owner of the stock or capital necessary for its cultivation, and the labourers by whose industry it is cultivated. View quote
David Ricardo
Philosophy is antipoetic. Philosophize about mankind and you brush aside individual uniqueness, which a poet cannot do without self-damage. Unless, for a start, he has a strong personal rhythm to vary his metrics, he is nothing. Poets mistrust philosophy. They know that once the heads are counted, each owner of a head loses his personal identity and becomes a number in some government scheme: if not as a slave or serf, at least as a party to the device of majority voting, which smothers personal views. View quote
Robert Graves
It wasn't so bad being a slave when your owner was yourself and stood up for you. View quote
Orson Scott Card
A pet. In pets, free will was tolerated only as long as the pet owner found it amusing. View quote
Octavia Butler
The broadening of the economic order which came to be seated in the individual property owner... dramatized by Jefferson's purchase of the Louisiana Territory... "The supremacy of corporate economic power... consolidated by the Supreme Court decision of 1886 which declared that the Fourteenth Amendment protected the corporation... [the New Deal, leading to], within the political arena, as well as in the corporate world itself, competing centers of power that challenged those of the corporate directors. View quote
C. Wright Mills
If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail. View quote
Fran Lebowitz
It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not. View quote
Jonathan Swift
I wanted to write in Kitchenese, the secret language of cooks, instantly recognizable to anyone who has ever dunked french fries for a summer job or suffered under the despotic rule of a tyrannical chef or boobish owner. (Anthony Bourdain)
No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish. View quote
Kin Hubbard
If the users don't control the program, the program controls the users. With proprietary software, there is always some entity, the "owner" of the program, that controls the program-and through it, exercises power over its users. A nonfree program is a yoke, an instrument of unjust power. View quote
Richard Stallman
The Devil is right at home. The Devil, the Devil himself, is right in the house. And the Devil came here yesterday. Yesterday the Devil came here. Right here. And it smells of sulphur still today. Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, from this rostrum, the president of the United States, the gentleman to whom I refer as the Devil, came here, talking as if he owned the world. Truly. As the owner of the world. View quote
Hugo Chávez
Titles of property, for instance railway shares, may change hands every day, and their owner may make a profit by their sale even in foreign countries, so that titles to property are exportable, although the railway itself is not. View quote
Karl Marx