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Quotes about home
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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace. (Brimley Wilford)
Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity. (Brimley Wilford)
Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need. (Brimley Wilford)
An empty house is like a stray dog or a body from which life has departed. (Brimley Wilford)
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Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore. (Brimley Wilford)
You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne. (Brimley Wilford)
The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail -- its roof may shake -- the wind may blow through it -- the storm may enter -- the rain may enter -- but the King of England cannot enter! -- all his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement! (Brimley Wilford)
We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us. (Brimley Wilford)
In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness. (Brimley Wilford)
Going home must be like going to render an account. (Brimley Wilford)
A house is a machine for living in. (Brimley Wilford)
Nothing annoys a woman more than to have company drop in unexpectedly and find the house looking as it usually does. (Brimley Wilford)
Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration. (Brimley Wilford)
Where thou art, that is home. (Brimley Wilford)
Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends. (Brimley Wilford)
There is no sanctuary of virtue like home. (Brimley Wilford)
Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set of buildings, a glimpsed, smudged window-view across a schoolyard, a musty aroma sniffed behind a garage when you were a child, all of which come crowding in upon your latter-day senses -- those are pungent things and vivid, even consoling. But to me they are also inert and nostalgic and unlikely to connect you to the real, to that essence art can sometimes achieve, which is permanence. (Brimley Wilford)
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in. (Brimley Wilford)
He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. (Brimley Wilford)
Be he a king or a peasant, he is happiest who finds peace at home. (Brimley Wilford)
One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time. (Brimley Wilford)
The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home. (Brimley Wilford)
The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store. (Brimley Wilford)
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house. (Brimley Wilford)
It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor, and fictitious benevolence. (Brimley Wilford)
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