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

People usually are the happiest at home.

Shakespeare, William

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

A good home must be made, not bought.

Joyce Maynard

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

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

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

Betjeman, John

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

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

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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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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

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Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.

Campion, Thomas

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A house is a machine for living in.

Corbusier, Le

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

Johnson, Ben

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

Eucharista Ward

20.

Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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Our country is where ever we are well off.

Milton, John

23.

Not going home is already like death.

E. Catherine Tobler

24.

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

Hesse, Hermann

25.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Byron, Lord

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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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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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There is no sanctuary of virtue like home.

Everett, Edward

35.

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

May Sarton

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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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My home is not a place, it is people.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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

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

Dane, Frank

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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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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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Where thou art, that is home.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Life's a voyage that's homeward bound.

Herman Melville

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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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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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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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One returns to the place one came from.

La Fontaine, Jean De