Motivational Quotes

Home

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

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

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Montgomery, Robert

Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

A good home must be made, not bought.

Joyce Maynard

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Chase, Alexander

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

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

10.

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)

11.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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.

16.

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

Eucharista Ward

19.

People usually are the happiest at home.

Shakespeare, William

20.

Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.

Campion, Thomas

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

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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

25.

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

Pollock, Channing

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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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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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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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Life's a voyage that's homeward bound.

Herman Melville

31.

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

32.

Not going home is already like death.

E. Catherine Tobler

33.

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

Hubbard, Kin

34.

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

Hesse, Hermann

35.

Our country is where ever we are well off.

Milton, John

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

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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

38.

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

Dane, Frank

39.

One returns to the place one came from.

La Fontaine, Jean De

40.

My home is not a place, it is people.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Betjeman, John

43.

A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

Aristophanes

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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 is no sanctuary of virtue like home.