Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men’s belief that they “own” their bodies — those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another!
—C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) Irish-born British Academic, Author, Literary Scholar
The paternal hearth, that rallying place of the affections.
—Washington Irving (1783–1859) American Essayist, Biographer, Historian
A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.
—Sydney Smith (1771–1845) English Clergyman, Essayist, Wit
If you’re going home, you don’t get wet.
—African Proverb
The first sure symptom of a mind in health, is rest of heart, and pleasure felt at home.
—Edward Young (1683–1765) English Poet
You can’t appreciate home till you’ve left it, money till it’s spent, your wife till she’s joined a woman’s club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.
—O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) (1862–1910) American Writer of Short Stories
Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.
—Charles Henry Parkhurst (1842–1933) American Clergyman, Civic Reformer
There is no sanctuary of virtue like home.
—Edward Everett (1794–1865) American Politician, Scholar
The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) (1788–1824) English Romantic Poet
I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don’t want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.
—Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927) English Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright
To most men their early home is no more than a memory of their early years. The image is never marred. There’s no disappointment in memory, and one’s exaggerations are always on the good side.
—George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) (1819–80) English Novelist
A home without a woman is like a barn without cattle.
—African Proverb
Home is where the heart is.
—U.S. Proverb
Life is a temporary stop, death is the journey home.
—Vietnamese Proverb
A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract them from the longing for adventure and escape they’ve had since time began.
—Marguerite Duras (1914–96) French Novelist, Playwright
To be happy at home is the ultimate aim of all ambition; the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
—Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist
Home is the place where we are treated the best, but grumble the most.
—Unknown
For there we loved, and where we love is home,
Home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–94) American Physician, Essayist
Charity begins at home.
—Common Proverb
Affairs of the home should not be discussed in the public square.
—African Proverb
A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home.
—Chinese Proverb
Nothing annoys a woman more than to have company drop in unexpectedly and find the house looking as it usually does.
—Frank Lane (1896–1981) American Sportsperson, Businessperson
My home is not a place, it is people.
—Lois McMaster Bujold (b.1949) American Novelist, Writer
The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well-ordered homes of the people.
—Lydia H. Sigourney (1791–1865) American Poetaster, Author
Where I make a living, there is my home.
—African Proverb
What a fool he must be who thinks that his El Dorado is anywhere but where he lives.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher
There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never known beyond its hallowed limits.
—Robert South (1634–1716) English Theologian, Preacher
Seeking fish? Don’t dive in the pond; go home and get a net.
—Chinese Proverb
Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
—Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British Head of State
Home—that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel’s wings.
—Lydia Maria Child (1802–80) American Abolitionist, Writer
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