Motivational Quotes

Home

Nothing annoys a woman more than to have company drop in unexpectedly and find the house looking as it usually does.

- Dane, Frank

Best Quotes about Home

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

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

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Montgomery, Robert

Be he a king or a peasant, he is happiest who finds peace at home.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

Bryson, Bill

People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.

Betjeman, John

There is no place more delightful than one's own fireplace.

Cicero, Marcus T.

10.

Not going home is already like death.

E. Catherine Tobler

11.

We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.

Churchill, Winston

12.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

Thatcher, Margaret

13.

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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One returns to the place one came from.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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

18.

Life's a voyage that's homeward bound.

Herman Melville

19.

Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.

Pollock, Channing

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A good home must be made, not bought.

Joyce Maynard

21.

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.

Dickens, Charles

22.

Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.

Rowland, Helen

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People usually are the happiest at home.

Shakespeare, William

24.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

25.

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

Twain, Mark

26.

He makes his home where the living is best.

Proverb, Latin

27.

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

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Luxuries are never so comfortable as are the familiar, ordinary things of home.

Eucharista Ward

29.

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.

Duras, Marguerite

30.

You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.

Cervantes, Miguel De

31.

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

32.

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

Hesse, Hermann

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Our country is where ever we are well off.

Milton, John

34.

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

35.

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.

Duras, Marguerite

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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.

Ford, Richard

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There is no sanctuary of virtue like home.

Everett, Edward

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He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.

Johnson, Ben

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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!

Chatham, William Pitt The Elder, Lord

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The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes.

Harold B. Lee

42.

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.

Child, Lydia M.

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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.

Johnson, Samuel

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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

Bachelard, Gaston

45.

The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.

Howe, Edgar Watson

46.

A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

Aristophanes

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A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless.

May Sarton

48.

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

Smith, Sydney

49.

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.

King, Florence

50.

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