God walks among the pots and pans.
—Saint Teresa of Ávila, c. 1582Quotes
Home is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903Men are merriest when they are from home.
—William Shakespeare, 1599An exile with no home anywhere is a corpse without a grave.
—Publilius Syrus, 50 BCA crust of bread and a corner to sleep in / A minute to smile and an hour to weep in.
—Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1895The 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 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, 1985Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
—William Morris, 1882In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
—Colette, 1944Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.
—Samuel Johnson, 1771An American will build a house in which to pass his old age and sell it before the roof is on.
—Alexis de Tocqueville, 1840Every house: temple, empire, school.
—Joseph Joubert, 1800