Erma Bombeck Quotes

AXIOM. — Property is the Right of Increase claimed by the Proprietor over any thing which he has stamped as his own.

That which you look upon as your own you may keep only so long as the world allows you to own it.

This isn't about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership.

Property isn't theft: it's nothing.

I refuse to pronounce the names of possession and nonpossession.

There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property.

The right of absolute and irresponsible dominion is the right of property, and the right of property is the right of absolute, irresponsible dominion. The two are identical; the one necessarily implying the other.

What belongs to someone, belongs to someone.

The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man’s nature.

Property is proper to man.

The land is Mine.

Ownership is a very complex judicial concept.

Personally I think that private property has a right to be defended. Our civilisation is built up on property, and can only be defended by private property.

Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.

Nine-tenths of human law is about possession.

Possession is eleven points in the law.

What I have in my power, that is my own. So long as I assert myself as holder, I am the proprietor of the thing.

The whole title by which you possess your property, is not a title of nature but of a human institution.

There is, of course, a difference between what one seizes and what one really possesses.

All property is theft, except mine.

How can land be owned by another man. Warns one can not steal what was given as a gift. Is the sky owned by birds and the rivers owned by fish.

Property belongs to man and not man to property.

Handing over a bank note is enough to make a bicycle belong to me, but my entire life is needed to realize this possession.

The gowne is his that we ares it, and the world his that enjoyes it.