What is property bubble?

Famous quotes containing the words property and/or bubble:

    In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon’s mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty.
    Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)