It is the property of fools to be always judging. [ Proverb ]
What belongs to the public, is nobody's property. [ Proverb ]
Property ill got is ill spent; lightly come, lightly go. [ Plaut ]
It is easy to be a spendthrift with other people's property. [ Platen ]
By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property. [ Francois M. A. de Voltaire ]
He deservedly loses his own property, who covets that of another. [ Pha?drus ]
Our probity is not less at the mercy of fortune than our property. [ Rochefoucauld ]
Your own property is concerned when your neighbor's house is on fire. [ Horace ]
Truth is the property of no individual, but is the treasure of all men. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
The human voice has an authority and an insinuating property which writing lacks. [ Joubert ]
It is for the interest of the state that every one make a good use of his property.
Property is like snow; if it falleth level today, it will be blown into drifts tomorrow. [ Sinclair ]
Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
It is the property of every hero to come back to reality; to stand upon things, not shows of things. [ Carlyle ]
All men are married women's property; that is the only true definition of what married women's property really is. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
Avoid law suits beyond all things; they influence your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property. [ La Bruyere ]
The eyes have a property in things and territories not named in any title deeds, and are the owners of our choicest possessions. [ Alcott ]
Those who injure one party to benefit another are quite as unjust as if they converted the property of others to their own benefit. [ Cicero ]
In destroying the predisposition to anger, science of all kinds is useful; but the mathematics possess the property in the most eminent degree. [ Dr. Rush ]
Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions. It has boded, and mowed, and gibbered for ages over government and property. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
When a man dies, they who survive him ask what property he has left behind. The angel who bends over the dying man asks what good deeds he has sent before him. [ Koran ]
When you leave the unimpaired hereditary freehold to your children, you do but half your duty. Both liberty and property are precarious, unless the possessors have sense and spirit enough to defend them. [ Junius ]
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 ]
Avarice often produces opposite effects; there is an infinite number of people who sacrifice all their property to doubtful and distant expectations; others despise great future advantages to obtain present interests of a trifling nature. [ Kochefoucauld ]
Nothing makes a woman more esteemed by the opposite sex than chastity; whether it be that we always prize those most who are hardest to come at, or that nothing besides chastity, with its collateral attendants, truth, fidelity, and constancy, gives the man a property in the person he loves, and consequently endears her to him above all things. [ Addison ]
Necessary or Essential? Necessary signifies not to be departed from, and is a general and an indefinite term. The essential contains that essence or property which cannot be omitted. It is necessary for men to die. Exercise is essential to the preservation of health. There is an essential difference between gold and silver. Here we could not properly use necessary for essential. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of a man; like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given; often it is but a false glare, dazzling the eyes of the vulgar, lending, by casual extrinsic splendour, the brightness and manifold glance of the diamond to pebbles of no value. [ Carlyle ]