Motivational Quotes

Home

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

- Smith, Sydney

Best Quotes about Home

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

John Howard Payne

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

Smith, Sydney

There is no sanctuary of virtue like home.

Everett, Edward

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

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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.

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

10.

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

Churchill, Winston

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

People usually are the happiest at home.

Shakespeare, William

15.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

16.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

17.

One returns to the place one came from.

La Fontaine, Jean De

18.

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

Montgomery, Robert

19.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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.

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

23.

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

Hesse, Hermann

24.

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

Hubbard, Kin

25.

A good home must be made, not bought.

Joyce Maynard

26.

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

27.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

He makes his home where the living is best.

Proverb, Latin

35.

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

Pollock, Channing

36.

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

Eucharista Ward

37.

Life's a voyage that's homeward bound.

Herman Melville

38.

Not going home is already like death.

E. Catherine Tobler

39.

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

Breathnach, Sarah Ban

40.

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

May Sarton

41.

Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.

Campion, Thomas

42.

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

Proverb, Chinese

43.

My home is not a place, it is people.

Lois McMaster Bujold

44.

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

Chase, Alexander

45.

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

Twain, Mark

46.

Where thou art, that is home.

Dickinson, Emily

47.

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

48.

A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside, it is more often his nursery.

Luce, Clare Boothe

49.

A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

Aristophanes

50.

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

Proverb, Turkish