Quotes

No outward doors of a man's house can in general be broken open to execute any civil process; though in criminal cases the public safety supersedes the private.
-Bible

Where thou art, that is home.
-Emily Dickinson

His native home deep imag'd in his soul.
-Homer

A house is a machine for living in.
-Le Corbusier

Old homes! old hearts! Upon my soul forever Their peace and gladness lie like tears and laughter.
-Madison Julius Cawein

To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That's the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
-Robert Burns

There is no place more delightful than one's own fireside.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero

My whinstone house my castle is, I have my own four walls.
-Thomas Carlyle

For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
-Abraham Cowley

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

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.
-Gaston Bachelard

I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.
-Jerome K Jerome

For a man's house is his castle.
-Lord Edward Coke

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.
-Marguerite Duras

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

Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.
-George Bernard Shaw

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.
-Agnes Meyer

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.
-Charles Dickens

There's nobody at home But Jumping Joan, And father and mother and I.
-George Gascoigne

Home is home, though it be never so homely.
-John Clarke

The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.
-Lord Edward Coke

The stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand! Amidst their tall ancestral trees, O'er all the pleasant land.
-Mrs Felicia D Hemans

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

The house is a castle which the King cannot enter.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
-Bible

I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel - Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls.
-Charles Stuart Calverley

"Home" is any four walls that enclose the right person.
-Helen Rowland

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

When the hornet hangs in the holly hock, And the brown bee drones i' the rose, And the west is a red-streaked four-o'clock, And summer is near its close-- It's - Oh, for the gate, and the locust lane; And dusk, and dew, and home agai.
-Madison Julius Caweinn!

A house is not a home.
-Polly Adler

Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.
-Thomas Campion

A man builds a fine house, and now he has a master, and a task for life, he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson