Motivational Quotes

Home

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Home

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

Harold B. Lee

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

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

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

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

Proverb, Turkish

11.

There is no sanctuary of virtue like home.

Everett, Edward

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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

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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

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

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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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Not going home is already like death.

E. Catherine Tobler

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A house is a machine for living in.

Corbusier, Le

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

May Sarton

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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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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

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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

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

Montgomery, Robert

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A good home must be made, not bought.

Joyce Maynard

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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My home is not a place, it is people.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

Aristophanes

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Where thou art, that is home.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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One returns to the place one came from.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Pollock, Channing

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

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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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He makes his home where the living is best.

Proverb, Latin

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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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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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Our country is where ever we are well off.

Milton, John

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Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.

Rowland, Helen

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