(1025 quotes found)
“From the respect paid to property flow, as from a poisoned fountain, most of the evils and vices which render this world such a dreary scene to the contemplative mind.”
Mary Wollstonecroft
“There is no such thing as ''the Queen's English'.' The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares!”
Mark Twain
“Property is the pivot of civilization”
Leon Samson
“Properties, are not Proper Ties. ”
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
“To inherit property is not to be born - is to be stillborn, rather”
Henry David Thoreau
“A mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good”
Samuel Johnson
“Prosperity has this property; it puffs up narrow souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and leads them to look down upon the world with contempt; but a truly noble spirit appears greatest in distress; and then becomes more bright and c”
Plutarch
“The effect of dust on cloud properties is to inhibit precipitation,”
Daniel Rosenfeld
“After nine legislative sessions full of name-calling, our school funding is in crisis, property taxes are up and judges are having to do our governor's job. We all know that unless we set politics aside we'll never fix what's broke.”
Carole Keeton Strayhorn
“No matter how worthy the cause, it is robbery, theft, and injustice to confiscate the property of one person and give it to another to whom it does not belong.”
Walter Williams