Motivational Quotes

Home

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

Best Quotes about Home

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

May Sarton

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

Chase, Alexander

People usually are the happiest at home.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Breathnach, Sarah Ban

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

Hesse, Hermann

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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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.

Rowland, Helen

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

Eucharista Ward

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Our country is where ever we are well off.

Milton, John

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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 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

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

Pollock, Channing

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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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One returns to the place one came from.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.

Campion, Thomas

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

Montgomery, Robert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life's a voyage that's homeward bound.

Herman Melville

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

Byron, Lord

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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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There is no sanctuary of virtue like home.

Everett, Edward

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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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He makes his home where the living is best.

Proverb, Latin

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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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Not going home is already like death.

E. Catherine Tobler

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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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Where thou art, that is home.

Dickinson, Emily

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A good home must be made, not bought.

Joyce Maynard

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Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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A house is a machine for living in.