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

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Also, since art is a vehicle for the transmission of ideas through form, the reproduction of the form only reinforces the concept. It is the idea that is being reproduced. Anyone who understands the work of art owns it. We all own the Mona Lisa.
Sol LeWitt

Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.
Dave Barry

But some things are the same. My mother still owns the house I grew up in, on what would now be called a cul de sac, but which the sign on the corner called a dead end street.
Mink Stole

Few rich men own their property; their property owns them.
Robert Green Ingersoll

From the moment I leave my house or my hotel room, the public owns me. The public made Alice Cooper and I can't imagine ever turning my back on my fans.
Alice Cooper

God owns heaven but He craves the earth.
Anne Sexton

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.
Adolf Hitler

I looked back at some of my earlier published stories with genuine horror and remorse. I got thinking, How many extant copies might there be, who owns them, and do they keep their doors locked?
Richard Russo

I simply went down there to catch up with an old mate of mine, who owns the place. He's the one who wrote the book on the place, but no, no movie, just a beer.
Bryan Brown

If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest.
Jimmy Breslin

In Houston everyone owns guns and uses 'em - sometimes just for the hell of it.
Shelley Duvall

In our society a man is known by the company he owns.
Gerald F. Lieberman

Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home; and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house.
Bruce Barton

Musicians own music because music owns them.
Virgil Thomson

My priorities had been changing before I had Addie but after she was born they changed completely. I don't count - my daughter sort of owns me.
Kim Basinger

Once again, I think there is little art being done that really owns up to such intense possibilities.
Peter Sotos

People who think it doesn't matter who owns our auto industry are flat wrong.
Robert Lutz

The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.
Kin Hubbard