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Men are merriest when they are from home.

—William Shakespeare, 1599

At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

—Rose Macaulay, 1925

I quit life as from an inn, not as from a home.

—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BC

God walks among the pots and pans.

—Saint Teresa of Ávila, c. 1582

Home is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse.

—George Bernard Shaw, 1903

Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.

—Rebecca West, 1912

Being offended is the natural consequence of leaving one’s home.

—Fran Lebowitz, 1981

The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.

—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1903

People 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, 1985

An American will build a house in which to pass his old age and sell it before the roof is on.

—Alexis de Tocqueville, 1840

It’s your business when your neighbor’s wall is in flames.

—Horace, 19 BC

Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.

—Samuel Johnson, 1771

For what do we live but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

—Jane Austen, 1813