Motivational Quotes

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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

Best Quotes about Home

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

Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.

Campion, Thomas

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

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

Our country is where ever we are well off.

Milton, John

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

Not going home is already like death.

E. Catherine Tobler

A good home must be made, not bought.

Joyce Maynard

Chatham, William Pitt The Elder, Lord

10.

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

May Sarton

11.

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

12.

Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

13.

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

Churchill, Winston

14.

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

Chase, Alexander

15.

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

Twain, Mark

16.

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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He makes his home where the living is best.

Proverb, Latin

18.

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

Smith, Sydney

19.

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

Johnson, Ben

20.

My home is not a place, it is people.

Lois McMaster Bujold

21.

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

Dane, Frank

22.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

23.

One returns to the place one came from.

La Fontaine, Jean De

24.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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 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

28.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

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

31.

A house is a machine for living in.

Corbusier, Le

32.

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

33.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

36.

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

Hubbard, Kin

39.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

40.

Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.

Rowland, Helen

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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

42.

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

Eucharista Ward

43.

A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

Aristophanes

44.

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

Proverb, Turkish

48.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

49.

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

Pollock, Channing

50.

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