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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

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

—Colette, 1944

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

Men are merriest when they are from home.

—William Shakespeare, 1599

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

—Horace, 19 BC

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

—Rose Macaulay, 1925

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

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1856

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

—Publilius Syrus, 50 BC

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

—Norman Douglas, 1917

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

—Fran Lebowitz, 1981