Motivational Quotes

Home

He makes his home where the living is best.

- Proverb, Latin

Best Quotes about Home

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

A house is a machine for living in.

Corbusier, Le

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

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

Betjeman, John

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

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

He makes his home where the living is best.

Proverb, Latin

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Eucharista Ward

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One returns to the place one came from.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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My home is not a place, it is people.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Chase, Alexander

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

Churchill, Winston

22.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.

Campion, Thomas

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

Byron, Lord

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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.

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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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Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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Not going home is already like death.

E. Catherine Tobler

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

Montgomery, Robert

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

Twain, Mark

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

Smith, Sydney

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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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A good home must be made, not bought.

Joyce Maynard

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

Johnson, Ben

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People usually are the happiest at home.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Where thou art, that is home.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Hubbard, Kin