Quote: Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity. Author: Francis Bacon 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman
Quote: People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors. Author: John Betjeman 1906-1984, British Poet
Quote: Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need. Author: Sarah Ban Breathnach American Author
Quote: There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again. Author: Bill Bryson American Author
Quote: An empty house is like a stray dog or a body from which life has departed. Author: Samuel Butler 1612-1680, British Poet, Satirist
Quote: The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice. Author: Lord Byron 1788-1824, British Poet
Quote: Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore. Author: Thomas Campion
Quote: You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne. Author: Miguel De Cervantes 1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet
Quote: A man's home is his wife's castle. Author: Alexander Chase
Quote: The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail -- its roof may shake -- the wind may blow through it -- the storm may enter -- the rain may enter -- but the King of England cannot enter! -- all his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement! Author: William Pitt The Elder Chatham 1708 -1778, British Statesman
Quote: Home -- that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings. Author: Lydia M. Child 1802-1880, American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor
Quote: We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us. Author: Winston Churchill 1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister
Quote: There is no place more delightful than one's own fireplace. Author: Marcus T. Cicero c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician
Quote: In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness. Author: Sidonie Gabrielle Colette 1873-1954, French Author
Quote: Going home must be like going to render an account. Author: Joseph Conrad 1857-1924, Polish-born British Novelist
Quote: A house is a machine for living in. Author: Le Corbusier
Quote: Nothing annoys a woman more than to have company drop in unexpectedly and find the house looking as it usually does. Author: Frank Dane
Quote: Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration. Author: Charles Dickens 1812-1870, British Novelist
Quote: Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb -- or Dome of Worm -- or Porch of Gnome -- or some Elf's Catacomb? Author: Emily Dickinson 1830-1886, American Poet
Quote: Where thou art, that is home. Author: Emily Dickinson 1830-1886, American Poet
Quote: Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends. Author: Norman Douglas 1868-1952, British Author
Quote: A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract them from the longing for adventure and escape they've had since time began. Author: Marguerite Duras 1914-, French Author, Filmmaker
Quote: The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it -- can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it. Author: Marguerite Duras 1914-, French Author, Filmmaker
Quote: Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it. Author: Evan Esar
Quote: There is no sanctuary of virtue like home. Author: Edward Everett 1794-1865, American Statesman, Scholar
Quote: Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set of buildings, a glimpsed, smudged window-view across a schoolyard, a musty aroma sniffed behind a garage when you were a child, all of which come crowding in upon your latter-day senses -- those are pungent things and vivid, even consoling. But to me they are also inert and nostalgic and unlikely to connect you to the real, to that essence art can sometimes achieve, which is permanence. Author: Richard Ford 1944-, American Author
Quote: Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in. Author: Robert Frost 1875-1963, American Poet
Quote: Estate agents. You can't live with them, you can't live with them. The first sign of these nasty purulent sores appeared round about 1894. With their jangling keys, nasty suits, revolting beards, moustaches and tinted spectacles, estate agents roam the land causing perturbation and despair. If you try and kill them, you're put in prison: if you try and talk to them, you vomit. There's only one thing worse than an estate agent but at least that can be safely lanced, drained and surgically dressed. Estate agents. Love them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them. Author: Stephen Fry
Quote: Be he a king or a peasant, he is happiest who finds peace at home. Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time. Author: Hermann Hesse 1877-1962, German-born Swiss Novelist, Poet
Quote: The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home. Author: Edgar Watson Howe 1853-1937, American Journalist, Author
Quote: The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store. Author: Kin Hubbard 1868-1930, American Humorist, Journalist
Quote: I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house. Author: Jerome K. Jerome 1859-1927, British Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright
Quote: Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house. Author: Ben Johnson 1600-?British Clergyman, Poet
Quote: It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor, and fictitious benevolence. Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author
Quote: No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction. Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author
Quote: The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority. Author: (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal c.55-c.130, Roman Satirical Poet
Quote: Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time. To keep citizens puttering in their yards instead of sputtering on the barricades, the government has gladly deprived itself of billions in tax revenues by letting home ''owners'' deduct mortgage interest payments. Author: Florence King 1936-, American Author, Critic
Quote: One returns to the place one came from. Author: Jean De La Fontaine 1621-1695, French Poet
Quote: The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do is destroyed, laid waste or eaten within twenty four hours. Author: Lady Kasluck
Quote: Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small beer in it, and the second reeked claret. Author: Charles Lamb 1775-1834, British Essayist, Critic
Quote: I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy and more picturesque skins: but it would seem to me unnatural to exchange them for mine. Author: Primo Levi 1919-1987, Italian Chemist, Author
Quote: A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside, it is more often his nursery. Author: Clare Boothe Luce 1903-1987, American Diplomat, Writer
Quote: What the Nation must realize is that the home, when both parents work, is non-existent. Once we have honestly faced that fact, we must act accordingly. Author: Agnes Meyer
Quote: Our country is where ever we are well off. Author: John Milton 1608-1674, British Poet
Quote: My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul. Author: Michel Eyquem De Montaigne 1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist
Quote: Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest. Author: Robert Montgomery 1807-1855, American Author
Quote: The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest. Author: Thomas Moore 1779-1852, Irish Poet
Quote: Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. Author: William Morris 1834-1896, British Artist, Writer, Printer
Quote: If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful. Author: William Morris 1834-1896, British Artist, Writer, Printer
Quote: Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners. Author: Charles H. Parkhurst 1842-1933, American Clergyman, Reformer
Quote: Home is where the heart is. Author: Pliny The Elder c.23-79, Roman Neophatonist
Quote: Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments. Author: Channing Pollock American Actor
Quote: You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a woman's club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town. Author: O. Henry Porter 1862-1910, American short-story Writer
Quote: A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home. Author: Chinese Proverb Sayings of Chinese Origin
Quote: He makes his home where the living is best. Author: Latin Proverb Sayings of Latin Origin
Quote: It matters less to a person where they are born than where they can live. Author: Turkish Proverb Sayings of Turkish Origin
Quote: ''Home'' is any four walls that enclose the right person. Author: Helen Rowland 1875-1950, American Journalist
Quote: If men lived like men indeed, their houses would be temples -- temples which we should hardly dare to injure, and in which it would make us holy to be permitted to live; and there must be a strange dissolution of natural affection, a strange unthankfulness for all that homes have given and parents taught, a strange consciousness that we have been unfaithful to our fathers honor, or that our own lives are not such as would make our dwellings sacred to our children, when each man would fain build to himself, and build for the little revolution of his own life only. Author: John Ruskin 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist
Quote: There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair. Author: Johann Friedrich Von Schiller 1759-1805, German Dramatist, Poet, Historian
Quote: People usually are the happiest at home. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience. Author: Sydney Smith 1771-1845, British Writer, Clergyman
Quote: Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserved; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room, from which we go forth to more careful and guarded intercourse, leaving behind us much debris of cast-off and everyday clothing. Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811-1896, American Novelist, Antislavery Campaigner
Quote: Home is where there's one to love us. Author: Charles Swain
Quote: Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country. Author: Margaret Thatcher 1925-, British Stateswoman, Prime Minister (1979-90)
Quote: I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. Author: Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist
Quote: Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters? Author: Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist
Quote: We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character. Author: Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist
Quote: One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer
Quote: Home is the place where we are treated the best, but grumble the most. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones. Author: Peter De Vries 1910-, American Author
Quote: I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty. Here was every sensuous curve of the ''human figure divine'' but minus the imperfections. Never did the Greeks reach a more significant consummation to their culture, and it somehow reminded me, in the glory of its chaste convulsions and in its swelling, sweeping, forward movement of finely progressing contours, of the Victory of Samothrace. Author: Edward Weston 1886-1958, American Photographer
Quote: It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there. Author: Elsie De Wolfe
Quote: Home is where you make it. Author: Anonomous Anonomous