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

—George Bernard Shaw, 1903

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

—Horace, 19 BC

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

—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1903

God walks among the pots and pans.

—Saint Teresa of Ávila, c. 1582

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

—Charles Dickens, 1843

Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.

—Norman Douglas, 1917

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

—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BC

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

—Maya Angelou, 1986

An exile with no home anywhere is a corpse without a grave.

—Publilius Syrus, 50 BC

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

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

—Fran Lebowitz, 1981

Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1856

Men are merriest when they are from home.

—William Shakespeare, 1599