Home is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903Quotes
It’s your business when your neighbor’s wall is in flames.
—Horace, 19 BCThe home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1903God walks among the pots and pans.
—Saint Teresa of Ávila, c. 1582Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
—Charles Dickens, 1843Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
—Norman Douglas, 1917I quit life as from an inn, not as from a home.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BCThe ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
—Maya Angelou, 1986An exile with no home anywhere is a corpse without a grave.
—Publilius Syrus, 50 BCPeople can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing’s as eternal as the dishes.
—Margaret Mahy, 1985Being offended is the natural consequence of leaving one’s home.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1981Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1856Men are merriest when they are from home.
—William Shakespeare, 1599