Quotes
Quotes about Home
O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime: When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by Fate, Through the long furrow drave the ploughshare straight.
Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first best country ever is at home.
They know no country, own no lord, Their home the camp, their law the sword.
At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
Peace, like charity, begins at home.
A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.
Alas! for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sun. Oh! it was pitiful! Near a whole city full, Home had she none.
The Equipment you'll leave at home, you'll need the most. You're always out of film when you'll have the best opportunity.
We can say nothing but what hath been said . . . Our poets steal from Homer . . . . Our storydressers do as much; he that comes last is commonly best.
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appeared, And ages ere the Mantuan Swan was heard; To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give a Milton birth, asked ages more.
Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.
How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
This current administration cannot even bring home a soldier from Iraq and they talk about putting a man on the moon.. didn't the Democrats whose candidates were elected in the last 3 presidential elections do that?
For target shooting, that's okay. Get a license and go to the range. For defense of the home, that's why we have police departments.
For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the Axisâan American decision that this is sport, or that it is business. - The American Character.
Britannia needs no bulwarks No towers along the steep; Her march is o'er the mountain wave, Her home is on the deep.
For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort. [Ger., Denn was man schwarz auf weiss besitzt, Kann man getrost nach Hause tragen.]
Ev'n so, with all submission, I . . . . Send you each year a homely letter, Who may return me much a better.
As leopard feels at home with leopard.
Thought control, like birth control, is best undertaken as long as possible before the fact. Many grown-ups will obstinately persist, if only now and then, in composing small strings of sentences in their heads and achieving at least momentary logic. This probably cannot be prevented, but we have learned how to minimize the consequences by arranging that such grown-ups will be unable to pursue that logic very far. If they were at home in the technology of writing, there's no telling how much social disorder they would cause by thinking things out at length.Our schools have chosen to cut this danger off as close to the root as possible, thus taking measures to preclude not only the birth of thought but its conception. They give the pill to even the youngest children, but just to be on the safe side, they give it to everybody else, too, especially all would-be schoolteachers.
Quiet is what home would be without children.
Unthread the rude eye of rebellion, And welcome home again discarded faith.
The effect of having other interests beyond those domestic works well. The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.
Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
