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A house is not a home.
Author: Polly Adler
Source: A House Is Not a Home, title of the book
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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.
Author: Bible
Source: Isaiah (ch. I, v. 8)
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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.
Author: Bible
Source: Isaiah (ch. I, v. 8)
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At length his lonely cot appears in view,
Beneath the shelter of an aged tree;
Th' expectant wee-things, toddling, stacher thro'
To meet their Dad, wi' flichterin noise an' glee.
Author: Robert Burns
Source: The Cotter's Saturday Night (st. 3)
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To make a happy fireside clime
To weans and wife,
That's the true pathos and sublime
Of human life.
Author: Robert Burns
Source: Epistle to Dr. Blacklock
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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.
Author: Charles Stuart Calverley
Source: In the Gloaming
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My whinstone house my castle is,
I have my own four walls.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: My Own Four Walls
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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 again!
Author: Madison Julius Cawein
Source: In the Lane
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Old homes! old hearts! Upon my soul forever
Their peace and gladness lie like tears and laughter.
Author: Madison Julius Cawein
Source: Old Homes
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There is no place more delightful than one's own fireside.
[Lat., Nullus est locus domestica sede jucundior.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: Epistles (IV, 8)
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Home is home, though it be never so homely.
Author: John Clarke
Source: Paroemiologia (p. 101)
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For a man's house is his castle.
Author: Lord Edward Coke
Source: Institutes (pt. III, Against Going, or Riding Armed, p. 162)
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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.
Author: Lord Edward Coke
Source: Reports, Semaynes' Case (vol. III, pt. V, p. 185), also found in Broom's Legal Maxims, max. 432
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For the whole world, without a native home,
Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
Author: Abraham Cowley
Source: To the Bishop of Lincoln (l. 27)
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I am far frae my hame, an' i'm weary aften whiles,
For the longed-for hame-bringing an' my Father's welcome smiles.
Author: Erastus W. Ellsworth
Source: My Ain Country
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The house is a castle which the King cannot enter.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: English Traits--Wealth
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There's nobody at home
But Jumping Joan,
And father and mother and I.
Author: George Gascoigne
Source: Tale of Ieronimi
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The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor,
The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door;
The chest contriv'd a double debt to pay,
A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: The Deserted Village (l. 227)
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At night returning, every labour sped,
He sits him down, the monarch of a shed;
Smiles by his cheerful fire, and round surveys
His children's looks, that brighten at the blaze;
While his lov'd partner, boastful of her hoard,
Displays her cleanly platter on the board.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: The Traveller (l. 191)
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How small of all that human hearts endure,
That part which laws or kings can cause or cure!
Still to ourselves in every place consigned,
Our own felicity we make or find.
With secret course, which no loud storms annoy,
Glides the smooth current of domestic joy.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: The Traveller (l. 429)
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What if in Scotland's wilds we viel'd our head,
Where tempests whistle round the sordid bed;
Where the rug's two-fold use we might display,
By night a blanket, and a plaid by day.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: The Traveller (l. 429)
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What's the good of a home if you are never in it?
Author: George Grossmith and Weedon Grossmith
Source: The Diary of a Nobody (ch. 1)
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The stately Homes of England,
How beautiful they stand!
Amidst their tall ancestral trees,
O'er all the pleasant land.
Author: Mrs. Felicia D. Hemans
Source: Homes of England
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My house, my house, though thou art small, thou art to me the
Escuriall.
Author: George Herbert
Source: Jacula Prudentum
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His native home deep imag'd in his soul.
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Source: The Odyssey (bk. XIII, l. 38)
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"Home" is any four walls that enclose the right person.
Author: Helen Rowland
Source: None
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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.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
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A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.
Author: Sydney Smith
Source: None
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Where thou art, that is home.
Author: Emily Dickinson
Source: None
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Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: None
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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.
Author: Charles Dickens
Source: None
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Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.
Author: Channing Pollock
Source: None
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Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.
Author: Thomas Campion
Source: None
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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.
Author: Agnes Meyer
Source: None
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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.
Author: Richard Ford
Source: None
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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.
Author: Jerome K. Jerome
Source: None
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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.
Author: Lady Kasluck
Source: None
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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.
Author: Stephen Fry
Source: None
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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.
Author: Marguerite Duras
Source: None
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Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.
Author: Sarah Ban Breathnach
Source: None
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A house is a machine for living in.
Author: Le Corbusier
Source: None
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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.
Author: Gaston Bachelard
Source: None
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