Motivational Quotes

Home

There is no sanctuary of virtue like home.

- Everett, Edward

Best Quotes about 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

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

One returns to the place one came from.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Eucharista Ward

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

Smith, Sydney

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

A good home must be made, not bought.

Joyce Maynard

People usually are the happiest at home.

Shakespeare, William

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

10.

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

Proverb, Turkish

11.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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My home is not a place, it is people.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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

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

Twain, Mark

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Life's a voyage that's homeward bound.

Herman Melville

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Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.

Rowland, Helen

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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

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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.

Fry, Stephen

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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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Where thou art, that is home.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.

John Howard Payne

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The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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

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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

30.

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

Hesse, Hermann

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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

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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

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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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There is no sanctuary of virtue like home.

Everett, Edward

35.

Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.

Campion, Thomas

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Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.

Breathnach, Sarah Ban

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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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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

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

Dane, Frank

40.

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

Betjeman, John

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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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Our country is where ever we are well off.

Milton, John

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A man's home is his wife's castle.

Chase, Alexander

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Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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He makes his home where the living is best.

Proverb, Latin

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Not going home is already like death.

E. Catherine Tobler