Motivational Quotes

Home

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

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Best Quotes about Home

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Dane, Frank

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

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

People usually are the happiest at home.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Churchill, Winston

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 house is a machine for living in.

Corbusier, Le

10.

A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

Aristophanes

11.

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

Chase, Alexander

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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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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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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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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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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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A good home must be made, not bought.

Joyce Maynard

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

May Sarton

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

Montgomery, Robert

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Life's a voyage that's homeward bound.

Herman Melville

23.

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

Breathnach, Sarah Ban

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

Eucharista Ward

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There is no sanctuary of virtue like home.

Everett, Edward

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

Smith, Sydney

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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

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Where thou art, that is home.

Dickinson, Emily

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

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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

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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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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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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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Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Byron, Lord

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

Hubbard, Kin

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He makes his home where the living is best.

Proverb, Latin

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

Johnson, Ben

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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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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 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

48.

Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.

Campion, Thomas

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One returns to the place one came from.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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.