Quotes
Quotes about Home
Saint abroad, and a devil at home.
It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
Were't not affection chains thy tender days To the sweet glances of thy honored love, I rather would entreat thy company To see the wonders of the world abroad Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.
By the golden chain Homer meant nothing else than the sun.
Where'er his fancy bids him roam, In ev'ry Inn he finds a home-- . . . . Will not an Inn his cares beguile, Where on each face he sees a smile?
As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job.
My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee. Unfortunately, she was just coming home.
On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome.
Kiss till the cows come home.
For many persons, law appears to be black magic--an obscure domain that can be fathomed only by the professional initiated into the mysteries.
Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.
. . . Philologists, who chase A painting syllable through time and space Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark, To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's Ark.
London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.
The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.
In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence. No matter what, no matter where, it's always home, if love is there. -P. L. Berger.
To be really cosmopolitan a man must be at home even in his own country. - Thomas W. Higginson,
Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd, As home his footsteps he hath turn'd, From wandering on a foreign strand!
A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road, And nailed if fast to his barn door, That luck might down upon him pour; That every blessing known in life Might crown his homestead and his wife, And never any kind of harm Descend upon his growing farm.
Oh a cockroach is better luck than a cricket upon the hearth for he magnetizes to your home those who love every heart. (typo corrected).
Oh a cockroach is better luck than a cricket upon the hearth for her magnetizes to your home those who love every heart.
The homegrown tomato is best (in reference to choosing a marriage partner).
A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment.
For years [my wedding ring] has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.
A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home.
