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House Quotes by Mark Twain
- One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.
- The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work.
- The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds.
- There's nobody for me to attack in this matter even with soft and gentle ridicule-and I shouldn't ever think of using a grown up weapon…
- By reading keep in a state of excited igorance, like a blind man in a house afire; flounder around, immensely but unintelligently interested; don't know…
- 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…
- I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes.
- To us, our house was not unsentient matter -- it had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with; and approvals and…
- Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows
- Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and effective delivery with…
- When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of your loss.
- There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that.
- There is nothing in either savage or civilized history that is more utterly complete, more remorselessly sweeping than the Father of Mercy´s campaign among the…
- 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…
- It has been reported that I was seriously ill--it was another man; dying--it was another man; dead--the other man again...As far as I can see,…
- I am technically "boss" of the family which I am carrying along-but I am grateful to know that it is only technically - that the…
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- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House… — Neil Armstrong
- The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood. — Saint Augustine
- Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. — Jane Austen
- Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture… — Diane Ackerman
- Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen? — Teresa of Avila
- My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much… — Teresa of Avila
- We try to exile ourselves more and more from nature - not always consciously: We build houses; we dismiss nature; nature has… — Diane Ackerman
- A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too… — Sai Baba
- If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects… — Gaston Bachelard