Quotes of Habitation - somelinesforyou

“ He hath eaten me out of house and home. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ The house appointed for all the living. ”

- The Holy Bible

“ When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home. ”

- Thornton Wilder

“ To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a "home" might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation. ”

- Emily Post

“ The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost look as much like home as we can. ”

- Christopher Fry

“ There's no place like home except Grandma's. ”

- Unknown

“ This isn't just rolling the dice - it's betting the whole house. ”

- Charles Schumer

“ Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do is destroyed, laid waste or eaten within twenty four hours. ”

- Lady Kasluck

“ Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help. ”

- Ken Livingstone

“ The room where I am lodging is stupendous. Thank God I am as fit as a fiddle. ”

- Pietro Mascagni

“ It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there. ”

- Elsie De Wolfe

“ Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now. ”

- Edward Abbey

“ Art is running away without ever leaving home. ”

- Twyla Tharp

“ The additional demand for housing has driven up real estate, which makes it difficult for young people to buy homes. It drives away the workers we would attempt to attract. ”

- Bob Smith

“ So that he seemed to depart not from life, but from one home to another. ”

- Cornelius Nepos

“ The Stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand, To prove the Upper Classes, Have still the Upper Hand. ”

- Noel Coward

“ I said that Sean Hannity took residence up Newt Gingrich's butt from 94 to 98. I got that from British intelligence. It turns out he only took up residence in 95. ”

- Al Franken

“ Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life. ”

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“ Love and dignity cannot share the same abode. ”

- Ovid

“ Television has brought back murder into the home — where it belongs. ”

- Alfred Hitchcock

“ And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house. ”

- Bible

“ May your hearts be as warm as your hearthstone. ”

- Unknown

“ Who may, in the ambush of my name, strike home. - Measure for Measure. Act i. Sc. 3. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of time And razure of oblivion. - Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost. ”

- Richard Branson

“ One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home. ”

- Pam Brown

“ I'll try to imagine something and see what happens. But it usually winds up being about something fairly concrete and close to home. ”

- Richard Thompson

“ If they are willing to give women economic freedom in that home, if they are willing to live by the standard they wish women to live by, then homes will be preserves. ”

- Agnes Macphail
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