An American will build a house in which to pass his old age and sell it before the roof is on.
—Alexis de Tocqueville, 1840Quotes
Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
—William Morris, 1882A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in / A minute to smile and an hour to weep in.
—Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1895At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
—Rose Macaulay, 1925People 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, 1985God walks among the pots and pans.
—Saint Teresa of Ávila, c. 1582Men are merriest when they are from home.
—William Shakespeare, 1599The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1903Every house: temple, empire, school.
—Joseph Joubert, 1800The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
—Maya Angelou, 1986I quit life as from an inn, not as from a home.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BCCharity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
—Charles Dickens, 1843For what do we live but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813