The house shows the owner. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The foot of the owner is manure for the farm. [ Spanish Proverb ]
O, reputation! dearer far than life.
Thou precious balsam, lovely, sweet of smell.
Whose cordial drops once spilt by some rash hand,
Not all the owner's care, nor the repenting toil
Of the rude spiller, ever can collect
To its first purity and native sweetness. [ Sewell ]
Fear keeps and looks to the vineyard, and not the owner. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Secrets make a dungeon of the heart and a jailer of its owner. [ Amer. Proverb ]
Sharp wits, like sharp knives, do often cut their owner's fingers. [ Arrowsmith ]
Inner sunshine warms not only the heart of the owner, but all who come in contact with it. [ J. T. Fields ]
It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of. [ Swift ]
The quantity of books in a library is often a cloud of witnesses of the ignorance of the owner. [ Oxenstiern ]
One cause of the insufficiency of riches (to produce happiness) is, that they very seldom make their owner rich. [ Johnson ]
A human heart is a skein of such imperceptibly and subtly interwoven threads, that even the owner of it is often himself at a loss how to unravel it. [ Ruffini ]
Whoever sinks his vessel by overloading it, though it be with gold, and silver, and precious stones, will give his owner but an ill account of his voyage. [ Locke ]
The stranger who turneth away from a house with disappointed hopes leaveth there his own offences, and departeth, taking with him all the good actions of the owner. [ Hitopadesa ]
A beautiful face fires our imagination, and we see higher virtue and intelligence in it than we can detect in its owner's head or heart when we descend to calm inspection. [ Charles Reade ]
Your estate, your home, and your pleasing wife must be left, and of these trees which you are rearing, not one shall follow you, their short-lived owner, except the hateful cypresses. [ Horace ]
The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds; and instead of vines and olives for the pleasure and use of man, produces to its slothful owner the most abundant crop of poisons. [ Hume ]
Consider what importance to society the chastity of women is. Upon that all the property in the world depends. We hang a thief for stealing a sheep; but the unchastity of a woman transfers sheep and farm and all from the right owner. [ Dr. Johnson ]