housing quotes

• When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it. He must always be a stranger to the place he loves, and its people. (William Morris) [housing/stranger/people]
• His claim to his home is deep, but there are too many ghosts. He must absorb without being absorbed. (William Morris) [housing/being]
• When he understands, as few others do, something of his home that is funny, or sad, or tragic, or cruel, or beautiful, or true, he knows he must do so as a stranger. (William Morris) [housing/stranger]
• A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past. (Vladimir Nabokov) [more/housing/present/past]
• Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. (Robert Frost) [housing/take]
• A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman. (Marlene Dietrich) [housing]
• You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family. (Anita Baker) [housing/fortune/housing/share]
• You see much more of your children once they leave home. (Lucille Ball) [more/housing]
• It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home. (Elizabeth Bowen) [feelings/housing]
• All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others. (Samuel Butler) [housing]
• Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him. (Samuel Butler) [housing]
• The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home. ( Confucius) [nation/integrity/housing]
• Going home must be like going to render an account. (Joseph Conrad) [housing/account]
• Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door. (Charles Dickens) [charity/housing/]
• 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. (Charles Dickens) [housing/spirit]
• Where thou art, that is home. (Emily Dickinson) [art/housing]
• A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman. (Marlene Dietrich) [housing]
• I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out. (George Eliot) [women/housing]
• Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans --which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi. (George Eliot) [time/housing/books/theatre]
• Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home. (Sigmund Freud) [more/housing]
• It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all. (Betty Friedan) [society/men/housing/status]
• Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in. (Robert Frost) [housing/take]
• They cannot scare me with their empty spaces between stars -- on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home to scare myself with my own desert places. (Robert Frost) [human/housing]
• A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. (Margaret Fuller) [housing/food/mind/soul & body]
• Charity begins at home, but should not end there. (Thomas Fuller) [charity/housing/start]
• He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [king//housing]
• Be he a king or a peasant, he is happiest who finds peace at home. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [king//housing]
• A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond. (Oliver Goldsmith) [housing/impulse/curiosity]
• I would like to spend my whole life traveling, if I could borrow another life to spend at home. (William Hazlitt) [life/life/housing]
• One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time. (Hermann Hesse) [housing/housing/time]
• Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr) [love/housing/housing]

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