A Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman - Statesman
106 BC - 43 BC

If a builder build a house for some one, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built fall in and kill its owner, then that builder shall be put to death.

Hammurabi

But when a black player calls a white owner a slave master that's dangerous. It's one thing to say an owner is a good owner or a bad owner, but you have to be careful when you bring race into it.

Larry Johnson

We have a lot of guests who are trying to take over the house and the owner of the house doesn't like it.

Pim Fortuyn

I am always amazed at how many guys in the NBA have never met an owner much less ever been to an owner's house. We bought the team so that we would be able to be a positive force, so that they in turn would be a positive force to young people everywhere.

Richard DeVos

There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away from owner after owner, cycle afer cycle, by force and bloodshed.

Mark Twain

The House shewes the owner.

George Herbert

The house shows the owner.

George Herbert

If a chieftain or a man leave his house, garden, and field and hires it out, and some one else takes possession of his house, garden, and field and uses it for three years; if the first owner return and claims his house, garden, and field, it shall not be given to him, but he who has taken possession of it and used it shall continue to use it.

Hammurabi

TREE HOUSE A tree house, a free house, A secret you and me house, A high up in the leafy branches Cozy as can be house. A street house, a neat house, Be sure to wipe your feet house Is not my kind of house at all- Let's go live in a tree house.

Shel Silverstein

There is a process at Fulham how they sign players. The owner is the owner, but I do have a say and will give my opinion.'

Scott Parker

If the owner wants to support the team, that's okay. If the owner can be on the pitch and score a couple of goals, it would be better!

Rafael Benitez

If in the paddock the owner is surrounded by a herd of young children, don't back his horse. But if the owner is accompanied by a beautiful lady, plunge to the hilt.

Robert Morley

The hitter asks the owner to give him a big raise so he can go somewhere he's never been, and the owner says "You mean third base?"

Henny Youngman

He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.