Quotes of Proprietor - somelinesforyou

“ Dogs have owners, cats have staff. Are you a dog or a cat? ”

- Unknown

“ The landlord's laugh was ready chorus. ”

- Robert Burns

“ I am the guardian of power, not its owner. ”

- Vicente Fox

“ We are only tenants, and shortly the great Landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired. ”

- Joseph Jefferson

“ I'm recording our history now on the bedroom wall, and when we leave the landlord will come and paint over it all. ”

- Ani DiFranco

“ It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not. ”

- Jonathan Swift

“ Landlords get rich in their sleep. ”

- Unknown

“ Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed. ”

- Karl Marx

“ As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat. ”

- Ellen Perry Berkeley

“ 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

“ The slogan of the National Association of Landlords is the commaless "We Shelter You America." The truth of the matter is, however, that landlords shelter no one, while in fact the law shelters them... from the immediate expropriation that would occur if there were not force of gun and jail to back up this phoney, abusive, so-called property right. ”

- Fred Woodworth

“ The sad news is, nobody owes you a career. Your career is literally your business. You own it as a sole proprietor. You have one employee: yourself. You need to accept ownership of your career, your skills and the timing of your moves. ”

- Andrew Grove

“ In the court of the movie Owner, none criticized, none doubted. And none dared speak of art. In the Owner's mind art was a synonym for bankruptcy. The movie Owners are the only troupe in the history of entertainment that has never been seduced by the adventure of the entertainment world. ”

- Ben Hecht

“ Today, the Harvard-educated proprietor of a boutique brothel on the East Side would be photographed attending first nights and would discuss her next book on television chat shows with respectful psychoanalysts who would treat her, not without justification, as a professional colleague. ”

- Joan O’Sullivan

“ No sooner is your ocean filled, than he grumbles that it might have been of better vintage. Try him with half of a Universe, of an Omnipotence, he sets to quarrelling with the proprietor of the other half and declares himself the most maltreated of men… ”

- Thomas Carlyle
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