Motivational Quotes

Home

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

Best Quotes about Home

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Pollock, Channing

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

May Sarton

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

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

Harold B. Lee

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 is no sanctuary of virtue like home.

Everett, Edward

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

Hesse, Hermann

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.

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

Smith, Sydney

12.

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

Dane, Frank

13.

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

Eucharista Ward

14.

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

Proverb, Turkish

15.

Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

16.

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

Johnson, Ben

17.

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

18.

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

Betjeman, John

19.

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

Breathnach, Sarah Ban

20.

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

John Howard Payne

21.

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

Proverb, Chinese

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

25.

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

Churchill, Winston

26.

A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

Aristophanes

27.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

28.

Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.

Campion, Thomas

29.

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

Byron, Lord

30.

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

31.

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)

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Twain, Mark

35.

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

Chase, Alexander

36.

Our country is where ever we are well off.

Milton, John

37.

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

38.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

39.

People usually are the happiest at home.

Shakespeare, William

40.

A good home must be made, not bought.

Joyce Maynard

41.

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

42.

Life's a voyage that's homeward bound.

Herman Melville

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.

Rowland, Helen

46.

Not going home is already like death.

E. Catherine Tobler

47.

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

48.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

49.

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

50.

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