Motivational Quotes

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

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Best Quotes about Home

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

Aristophanes

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

May Sarton

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

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

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

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

Betjeman, John

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

Eucharista Ward

10.

One returns to the place one came from.

La Fontaine, Jean De

11.

My home is not a place, it is people.

Lois McMaster Bujold

12.

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

Johnson, Ben

13.

Where thou art, that is home.

Dickinson, Emily

14.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

16.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

20.

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

Hesse, Hermann

21.

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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Life's a voyage that's homeward bound.

Herman Melville

23.

There is no sanctuary of virtue like home.

Everett, Edward

24.

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

Byron, Lord

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

28.

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

Twain, Mark

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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

30.

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

Smith, Sydney

31.

People usually are the happiest at home.

Shakespeare, William

32.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

33.

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

Chase, Alexander

34.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

35.

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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Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.

Rowland, Helen

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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

38.

He makes his home where the living is best.

Proverb, Latin

39.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

40.

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

41.

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)

42.

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

43.

Not going home is already like death.

E. Catherine Tobler

44.

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

45.

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

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

Montgomery, Robert

47.

Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.

Campion, Thomas

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