Motivational Quotes

Home

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

- Johnson, Ben

Best Quotes about Home

Where thou art, that is home.

Dickinson, Emily

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

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

Pollock, Channing

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Eucharista Ward

16.

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

17.

People usually are the happiest at home.

Shakespeare, William

18.

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.

19.

A good home must be made, not bought.

Joyce Maynard

20.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

21.

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

Breathnach, Sarah Ban

22.

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

23.

One returns to the place one came from.

La Fontaine, Jean De

24.

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

25.

Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Johnson, Ben

27.

Not going home is already like death.

E. Catherine Tobler

28.

Our country is where ever we are well off.

Milton, John

29.

Life's a voyage that's homeward bound.

Herman Melville

30.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

31.

A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

Aristophanes

32.

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

33.

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

Chase, Alexander

34.

A house is a machine for living in.

Corbusier, Le

35.

He makes his home where the living is best.

Proverb, Latin

36.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

37.

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

38.

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

Twain, Mark

39.

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

Harold B. Lee

40.

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

41.

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

Dane, Frank

42.

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

Hesse, Hermann

43.

Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.

Rowland, Helen

44.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

45.

Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.

Campion, Thomas

46.

The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.

Byron, Lord

47.

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

May Sarton

48.

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

49.

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

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