Mark Twain Quotes

I had rather be a toad, and live upon the vapor of a dungeon than keep a corner in the thing I love for others uses.

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.

I don't think it's really possible to share someone in most cases.

The more we have the less we own.

Two dogs never agree about one bone.

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

The Masters is not greedy. You wanna buy a Masters souvenir logo shirt? Sure, let's go over to the nearest Ralph Lauren boutique. Oops, you can only purchase Masters memorabilia at the Masters, this one week of the year.

My version of Dolly was mine, and it shouldn't be anyone else's.

For me, the things that are luxurious are things that are rare. It's not really about how much something costs or whether it's 'limited edition'; it's about how special it is.

Amazing how the heart clutches at anything familiar, whimpering Mine!Mine!

There is only one ball, so you need to have it.

As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.

We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have.

Uniqueness is the commodity of glut.

no matter what bullshit you heard, hes still mine! he'll always be mine

I wanted all of her and resented other boys for wanting any part of her.

Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable.

What's yours is mine and what's mine is my own.

But people find it very difficult to be a loving person, so they create a relationship - and befool that way that 'Now I am a loving person because I am in a relationship.' And the relationship may be just one of monopoly, possessiveness, exclusiveness.

If we'd put them in a vase in the living room, they would have been everyone's flowers. I wanted them to be my flowers.

If you want something, if you take it for your own, you'll always be taking it from someone else.

Nope. That´s my line. This is my boyfriend´s house, which makes that my line,exclusively.Where is he?" Nora (p. 287)

PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for possession in one and disappoints it in all others. The object of man's brief rapacity and long indifference.

The things most worth wanting are not available everywhere all the time.

The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.