Motivational Quotes

Home

A good home must be made, not bought.

- Joyce Maynard

Best Quotes about Home

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

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

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.

Rowland, Helen

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

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 usually are the happiest at home.

Shakespeare, William

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Life's a voyage that's homeward bound.

Herman Melville

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Byron, Lord

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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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A house is a machine for living in.

Corbusier, Le

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

Smith, Sydney

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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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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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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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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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

24.

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

Luce, Clare Boothe

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Chase, Alexander

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

Proverb, Chinese

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A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

Aristophanes

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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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My home is not a place, it is people.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Our country is where ever we are well off.

Milton, John

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

Montgomery, Robert

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

May Sarton

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A good home must be made, not bought.

Joyce Maynard

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

Pollock, Channing

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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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Where thou art, that is home.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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One returns to the place one came from.