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

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

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

My home is not a place, it is people.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Dane, Frank

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

Our country is where ever we are well off.

Milton, John

10.

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

11.

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

Breathnach, Sarah Ban

12.

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

Byron, Lord

13.

Where thou art, that is home.

Dickinson, Emily

14.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

15.

A house is a machine for living in.

Corbusier, Le

16.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

17.

A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

Aristophanes

18.

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

Twain, Mark

19.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

20.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

21.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

22.

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

23.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Eucharista Ward

28.

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

Johnson, Ben

29.

People usually are the happiest at home.

Shakespeare, William

30.

Life's a voyage that's homeward bound.

Herman Melville

31.

He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

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

May Sarton

33.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

34.

Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

35.

One returns to the place one came from.

La Fontaine, Jean De

36.

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

37.

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

John Howard Payne

38.

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

39.

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.

40.

He makes his home where the living is best.

Proverb, Latin

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Chase, Alexander

44.

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

45.

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

46.

A good home must be made, not bought.

Joyce Maynard

47.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

48.

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

49.

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

Proverb, Chinese

50.

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

Proverb, Turkish