Motivational Quotes

Home

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Home

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

A house is a machine for living in.

Corbusier, Le

Our country is where ever we are well off.

Milton, John

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

John Howard Payne

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

Byron, Lord

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

My home is not a place, it is people.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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One returns to the place one came from.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

May Sarton

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

Smith, Sydney

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Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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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 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 -- 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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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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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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A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

Aristophanes

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Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.

Rowland, Helen

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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

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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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Life's a voyage that's homeward bound.

Herman Melville

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

Eucharista Ward

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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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People usually are the happiest at home.

Shakespeare, 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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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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A good home must be made, not bought.

Joyce Maynard

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Chase, Alexander

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Churchill, Winston

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He makes his home where the living is best.

Proverb, Latin

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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

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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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle