Quotes about home

"One returns to the place one came from."

La Fontaine, Jean De on home
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"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."

Lady Kasluck on home   

"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."

Lamb, Charles on home   

"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."

Levi, Primo on home   

"A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside, it is more often his nursery."

Luce, Clare Boothe on home   

"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."

Meyer, Agnes on home   

"Our country is where ever we are well off."

Milton, John on home   

"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."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on home   

"Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest."

Montgomery, Robert on home   

"The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest."

Moore, Thomas on home   

"Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."

Morris, William on home   

"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."

Morris, William on home   

"Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners."

Parkhurst, Charles H. on home
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"Home is where the heart is."

Pliny The Elder on home
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"Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments."

Pollock, Channing on home   

"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."

Porter, O. Henry on home   

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"A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home."

Proverb, Chinese on home
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"He makes his home where the living is best."

Proverb, Latin on home   

"It matters less to a person where they are born than where they can live."

Proverb, Turkish on home   

"Home is any four walls that enclose the right person."

Rowland, Helen on home
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"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."

Ruskin, John on home   

"There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on home   

"People usually are the happiest at home."

Shakespeare, William on home
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"A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience."

Smith, Sydney on home   

"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."

Stowe, Harriet Beecher on home   

"Home is where there's one to love us."

Swain, Charles on home
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"Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country."

Thatcher, Margaret on home   

"We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character."

Thoreau, Henry David on home
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"I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society."

Thoreau, Henry David on home
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"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?"

Thoreau, Henry David on home   

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"One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge."

Twain, Mark on home   

"Home is the place where we are treated the best, but grumble the most."

Unknown, Source on home
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"When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones."

Vries, Peter De on home   

"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."

Weston, Edward on home   

"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."

Wolfe, Elsie De on home   

"No matter where on the map you dwell, as long as you are loved, you will always have a home. "

Kessler, Daniella on home   

"The farther away, the closer the home becomes."

Stojanovic, Dejan on home