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We are only tenants, and shortly the great Landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired. -- Joseph Jefferson
My ideal job? Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write. -- William Faulkner
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Hence it will not do for the Landlord to possess too fine a nature.... He must have no idiosyncracies, no particular bents or tendencies to this or that, but a general, uniform, and healthy development, such as his portly person indicates, offering himself equally on all sides to men. -- Henry David Thoreau
Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising -- John Stuart Mill
I want to be a successful landlord. I like real estate. -- 2 Chainz
I want to be a successful landlord. I like real estate. -- 2 Chainz
Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed. -- Karl Marx
I don't assume that I am going to be cast as a Glaswegian landlord. -- Julian Ovenden
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it makes him landlord to a ghost. -- Lloyd C. Douglas
I know we can't have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
God's role in superintending our world and our lives is neither absentee landlord nor micromanager. -- Adam Hamilton
Cheat your landlord if you can -- and must -- but do not try to shortchange the Muse. -- William S. Burroughs
Why does Mosley always speak as though he were a feudal landlord abusing tenants who are in arrears with their rent ? -- Clement Attlee
I sold my house this week. I got a pretty good price for it, but it made my landlord mad as hell -- Garry Shandling
Bugs are not going to inherit the earth. They own it now. So we might as well make peace with the landlord. -- Thomas Eisner
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost. -- Henry Ward Beecher
I think the only thing I would've ever been any good at was probably being a pub landlord. I've thought of that a couple of times. -- Joe Cocker
I used to brag that I can hold up any eviction - even if the landlord had legal rights, I could hold it up for a year. -- Ed Lee
I try not to deal with people's hostility, though I must if they have something I need from them, as the professors did at Columbia or my landlord did. -- George Weinberg
The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel. In my opinion it's the perfect milieu for an artist to work in. -- William Faulkner
I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement; battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can learn, the landlord does not intend to repair. -- John Quincy Adams
The landlord of colonial days may not have been the greatest man in town, but he was certainly the best-known, often the most popular, and ever the most picturesque and cheerful figure. -- Alice Morse Earle
As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce. -- Adam Smith
The relation of landlord and tenant is not an ideal one, but any relations in a social order will endure if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality. -- George William Russell
A landlord is showing a couple around an apartment. The husband looks up and says, 'Wait a minute. This apartment doesn't have a ceiling.' The landlord answers, 'That's OK. The people upstairs don't walk around that much.' -- Gilbert Gottfried
Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economizing. The increase in the value of land, arising as it does from the efforts of an entire community, should belong to the community and not to the individual who might hold title. -- John Stuart Mill
Most people don't know that I am an accomplished dramatic actor... But I've performed in several Shakespeare productions including Hamlet, except in this version, Hamlet lives in an apartment with two women, and has to pretend he's gay so that the landlord won't evict him. -- John Ritter
As the revenue of the farmer is realized in raw produce, or in the value of raw produce, he is interested, as well as the landlord, in its high exchangeable value, but a low price of produce may be compensated to him by a great additional quantity. -- David Ricardo
Nearly all the Escapists in the long past have managed their own budget and their social relations so unsuccessfully that I wouldn't want them for my landlords, or my bankers, or my neighbors. They were valuable, like powerful stimulants, only when they were left out of the social and industrial routine. -- Willa Cather
We are all great landed proprietors, if we only knew it. What we lack is not land, but the power to enjoy it. Moreover, this great inheritance has the additional advantage that it entails no labor, requires no management. The landlord has the trouble, but the landscape belongs to everyone who has eyes to see it. -- John Lubbock
We do not want to create a situation like that which exists in South Africa, where the whites are the owners and rulers, and the blacks are the workers. If we do not do all kinds of work, easy and hard, skilled and unskilled, if we become merely landlords, then this will not be our homeland -- David Ben-Gurion
Making movies is a very different experience in a lot of ways. It's difficult when you're used to owning the copyright and having a landlord's possessory rights - I rent my plays to the companies that do them and, if I'm upset, I can pull the play. But the only two directors I've worked with are pretty great. -- Tony Kushner
I moved to L.A. after my landlord in Brooklyn tripled my rent. I spent months looking for other places to move to in New York, then one day I was in California eating a grapefruit, and I was like, 'This is what they taste like?' So I decided to move to L.A. and build a studio in my house. -- Dave Sitek
I'm in my apartment in trendy Tribeca. I've been down here for 37 years, from before it was a fashionable neighbourhood. It's a wonderful place; it looks over the Hudson River. I can see 30 miles into New Jersey. My landlord would like me to die because the rent is very low. I'm trying to outlive him. He can get a lot more if I disappear. -- Mark Margolis
The landlord's laugh was ready chorus. -- Robert Burns
You can't pay a landlord in dogma. -- Jodi Picoult
Life is a lease and God is the landlord. -- Sarah Strohmeyer
In a tavern everybody puts on airs except the landlord. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil.... -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
As I was saying to the landlord only this morning: 'You can't have everything'. -- Dorothy Parker
Daylight is nobody's friend. God comes in like a landlord and flashes on his brassy lamp. -- Anne Sexton
Too often, the landlord-tenant relationship is unbalanced with all the power on the side of unscrupulous landlords. -- Nydia Velazquez
Nothing is more dangerous than a poor doctor: not even a poor employer or a poor landlord. -- George Bernard Shaw
We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired. -- Joseph Jefferson
The interest of the landlord is always opposed to the interests of every other class in the community. -- David Ricardo
Deism, historically, produces atheism. First you make God a landlord, then an absent landlord, then he becomes simply absent. -- N. T. Wright
Come landlord fill a flowing bowl until it does run over, Tonight we will all merry be--tomorrow we'll get sober. -- John William Fletcher
I'm recording our history now on the bedroom wall, and when we leave the landlord will come and paint over it all. -- Ani DiFranco
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In no state in America is it legal for a landlord to demand their tenants lead a "healthy lifestyle" in order to rent property. -- Mallory Ortberg
I know that atmosphere of the Parisian apartment building, with the twin menaces of the concierge on the ground floor and the landlord upstairs. -- Roman Polanski
There were two Irishmen eating sandwiches in a pub and the landlord said: "You can't eat your own food in here." So they swapped sandwiches. -- Frank Carson
Rent is the portion of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the user of the original and indestructible powers of the soil -- David Ricardo
Making the landlord and the tenant the same person has certain advantages, as that the tenant pays no rent, while the landlord does a little work. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
God is the great janitor of the universe. Why things don't work is that we have a janitor in charge, and we keep looking for the landlord. -- Richard Kadrey
We used to fuss when the landlord dissed us No heat. Wonder why Christmas missed us Birthdays was the worst days Now we sip champagne when we thirst-ay. -- The Notorious B.I.G.
When your government, employer, landlord, merchant, banker and local sports team gang up to picture, digitize and permanently record your every activity, you are placed under unprecedented control. -- William Safire
I hate dreaming because when you want to sleep, you want to sleep. Dreaming is work. Next thing you know, I have to build a go-cart with my ex-landlord. -- Mitch Hedberg
Avarice and injustice are always shortsighted, and they did not foresee how much this regulation must obstruct improvement, and thereby hurt in the long-run the real interest of the landlord. -- Adam Smith
If the roof caves in and the tenants are sitting in the debris, they will laugh like hell. They will endure any hardship as long as it means trouble for the landlord. -- Harry Golden
And a revolution of automation finds machines replacing men in the mines and mills of America, without replacing their incomes or their training or their needs to pay the family doctor, grocer and landlord. -- John F. Kennedy
Democracy means doing whatever you want without asking permission of anybody but your boss, your doctor, your lawyer, your landlord, your bank, your city, your state and federal authorities, and your wife and children. -- Sam Levenson
I remember when each 4th lot was vacant and overgrown, and the landlord only go this rent when you had it, and each day was clear and good and each moment was full of promise. -- Charles Bukowski

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