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- One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.
- After a few months' acquaintance with European 'coffee' one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the rich beverage…
- Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his…
- A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. There is nothing more satisfying than that sense of being completely "at home" in your own…
- He had an uncommon fondness for cats. As an old man summering in New Hampshire, Twain even rented kittens from a nearby farm to keep…
- I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to literature. ... The…
- If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty.…
- A man's house burns down. The smoking wreckage represents only a ruined home that was dear through years of use and pleasant associations. By and…
- The moral of it is this: If you are of any account, stay at home and make your way by faithful diligence; but if you…
- The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.
- When a man's dog turns against hime, it is time for his wife to pack her trunk and go home to mamma.
- Is it, perhaps, possible that there are two kinds of Civilization-one for home consumption and one for the heathen market?
- By "trampling upon the helpless abroad" with unchecked surveillance, Americans have learned, "by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like at home."
- Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness
- ...the person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person that hadn't, and…
- America cannot have an empire abroad and a Republic at home.
- A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him,…
- It was a splendid population - for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home - you never find that sort of people among…
- A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it…
- When you want genuine music -- music that will come right home to you like a bad quarter, suffuse your system like strychnine whisky, go…
- A brown spotted lady-bug climbed the dizzy height of a grass blade, and Tom bent down close to it and said, "Lady-bug, lady-bug, fly away…
- We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish people when we…
- After a few months' acquaintance with Europeancoffee, one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the rich beverage of…
More Home Quotes
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- I have always drawn strength from being close to home. — Arthur Ashe
- It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk… — Marcel Achard
- Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and… — Rowan Atkinson
- Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course,… — Rowan Atkinson
- I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home. — David Attenborough
- It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space, places to… — David Attenborough
- There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. — Jane Austen
- Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really… — Bill Ayers