Motivational Quotes

Home

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

- Smith, Sydney

Best Quotes about Home

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Pollock, Channing

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

Byron, Lord

Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

A good home must be made, not bought.

Joyce Maynard

A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

Aristophanes

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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.

10.

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

Churchill, Winston

11.

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

12.

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

Hesse, Hermann

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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

16.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

18.

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

19.

There is no sanctuary of virtue like home.

Everett, Edward

20.

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

Eucharista Ward

21.

Our country is where ever we are well off.

Milton, John

22.

My home is not a place, it is people.

Lois McMaster Bujold

23.

Not going home is already like death.

E. Catherine Tobler

24.

One returns to the place one came from.

La Fontaine, Jean De

25.

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

26.

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)

27.

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

28.

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

Montgomery, Robert

29.

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

Breathnach, Sarah Ban

30.

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

Betjeman, John

31.

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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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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Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.

Campion, Thomas

34.

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

35.

Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.

Rowland, Helen

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

Smith, Sydney

37.

Life's a voyage that's homeward bound.

Herman Melville

38.

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

Harold B. Lee

39.

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

May Sarton

40.

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

41.

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

Proverb, Turkish

42.

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

43.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

44.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

45.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Twain, Mark

47.

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

Dane, Frank

48.

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

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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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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