Usufruct Quotes & Sayings

The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us. — Teresa Of Avila

There would be a paragraph about some veteran digging tunnels for the Germans in a slave labor camp, or something like that. Finally I decided to look it up and go further into it. — Charles Guggenheim

We worked so hard," [Joan Blondell] said, "and hardly ever had a day off ... Saturday was a working day and we usually worked right into Sunday morning." Joan's good nature may have worked against her in the long run. While fellow Warner Brothers workers Bette Davis, James Cagney, Olivia de Havilland and Humphrey Bogart fought like lions for better roles and more creative input, Joan took things in stride, at least through the early 1930s. "I just sailed through things, took the scripts I was given, did what I was told. I couldn't afford to go on suspension - my family needed what I could make. — Eve Golden

Attain and maintain a reputation, for it is the usufruct of fame. A stiff climb, for it is the issue of excellence, as rare as mediocrity is common. — Baltasar Gracian

The California supreme court, following the English common-law, decided that the owner of land bordering a watercourse was entitled only to the usufruct of the water; that if he used it he must return it to its original course unimpaired in quality and undiminished in volume. — Jerome Hart

I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self-evident, that the dart belongs in usufruct to the living. — Thomas Jefferson

Medicine, likewise, because it deals with things, has always been for our serener circles a Cinderella, blooming maid as happily as she has grown nevertheless. — Clifford Allbutt

Innovation comes from people who take joy in their work. — W. Edwards Deming

Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate waste. — George Perkins Marsh