A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well
as for the body.
-Margaret Fuller
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns
home to find it.
-George Moore
A man would rather come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to
a neatly made bed and an angry woman.
-Marlene Dietrich
A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside is more
often his nursery.
-Clare Boothe Luce
A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold
and bare he can blame none but himself.
-Louis L'Amour
All the average human being asks is something he can call a home; a
family that is fed and warm; and now and then a little happiness; once
in a long while an extravagance.
-Mary Harris Jones (Mother Jones)
Although the sun shine, leave not thy cloak at home.
-George
Herbert
Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will
choose your rest home.
-Phyllis Diller
America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture
shock without leaving home.
-Florence King
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
-Twyla Tharp
As the world gets dumber and dumber, I feel more and more at home.
-Peter
McWilliams
At home I am a nice guy; but I don't want the world to know. Humble
people, I've found, don't get very far.
-Muhammad Ali
Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a
jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside
world.
-Bette Davis
Christmas is a time when you get homesick, even when you're home.
-Carol
Nelson
Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is
not at home.
-Francis Bacon
Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give
you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means
you're in the wrong house.
-George Burns
Education, like neurosis, begins at home.
-Milton R. Sapirstein
Half of all home accidents happen in the kitchen, and the family has to
eat them.
-Sam Ewing
Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.
-Edward Abbey
Home is heaven and orgies are vile, but you need an orgy once in a while.
-Ogden
Nash
Home is not where you live but where they understand you.
-Christian
Morganstern
Home is the place we love best and grumble the most.
-Billy Sunday
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take
you in.
-Robert Frost
Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.
-Alexsandr
Hemon
Home is where you hang your @.
-Unattributed
Home is where you hang your head.
-Groucho Marx
Home was quite a place when people stayed there.
-E.B. White
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come
back home.
-Bill Cosby
I feel most at home in the United States, not because it is
intrinsically a more interesting country, but because no one really
belongs there any more than I do. We are all there together in its
wholly excellent vacuum.
-Wyndham Lewis
I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
-Carson
McCullers
I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.
-Robert
Orben
I would have gone home to my mother, but I'm not that crazy about my
mother.
-Cher
If charity begins at home, I bet I know in which room.
-John
Alejandro King (The Covert Comic)
If I'm not in bed by eleven, I go home.
-Henny Youngman
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid
the people, you might better stay home.
-James A. Michener
Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?
-Emile
Cioran
Is it time to go home yet? I keep clicking these damn shoes, but nothing
happens.
-Robin Hecht
It was the policy of the good old gentleman to make his children feel
that home was the happiest place in the world; and I value this
delicious home-feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow.
-Washington
Irving
It's true you can't go home again, although evidently your relatives can
come to your home as often as they want.
-John Alejandro King (The
Covert Comic)
Justice was born outside the home and a long way from it; and it has
never been adopted there.
-Walter Cronkite
Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of
education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.
-Pearl
S. Buck
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long
time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it
doesn't always go with everything else in the house.
-Jean Kerr
Of all the home remedies, a good wife is the best.
-Frank McKinney
(Kin) Hubbard
One of television's great contributions is that it brought murder back
into the home, where it belongs.
-Alfred Hitchcock
Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution
and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time. To keep citizens
puttering in their yards instead of sputtering on the barricades, the
government has gladly deprived itself of billions in tax revenues by
letting home 'owners' deduct mortgage interest payments.
-Florence
King
Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you
wouldn't have in your home.
-David Frost
The average man's expectations of a home are minimal: warmth, food,
clean shirts, not too many questions asked, and sex when necessary.
-Irma
Kurtz
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere
pleasant, and let the air out of their tires.
-Dorothy Parker
The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very
well.
-Mignon McLaughlin
The outside world doesn't have a lot to offer. You have to make your own
heaven in your own home.
-Bette Midler
The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and
life lovely.
-Louisa May Alcott
The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
-Confucius
The voices in my head told me to stay home and clean my guns.
-Unattributed
The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man
occasionally when he is at home.
-E.W. Howe
The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do
it is destroyed, laid waste or eaten within twenty-four hours.
-Lady
Hasluck
There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat.
-Wesley
Bates
To feel at home, stay at home.
-Clifton Fadiman
We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite
knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in our dreams, or
as we turn a corner, and suddenly there is a strange, sweet familiarity
that vanishes almost as soon as it comes...
-Madeleine L'Engle
We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.
-Jeff
Marder
When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn't the
old home you missed but your childhood.
-Sam Ewing
Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
-Oliver
Wendell Holmes, Sr.
You show me a woman who hasn't fantasized getting in a car and leaving
home and I'll show you a woman who doesn't drive.
-Susan Sussman
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(Also born on May 18: Bertrand Russell and Tina Fey.)
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