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

—Rose Macaulay, 1925

God walks among the pots and pans.

—Saint Teresa of Ávila, c. 1582

Men are merriest when they are from home.

—William Shakespeare, 1599

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

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

—Charles Dickens, 1843

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

—Horace, 19 BC

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

—Norman Douglas, 1917

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

—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1903

A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in / A minute to smile and an hour to weep in.

—Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1895

In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.

—Colette, 1944

One who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.

—Ptahhotep, c. 2400 BC

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

—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 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