House Quotes

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Day after day we looked for rain, and day after day we saw nothing but the sun. Lavender that we had planted in the spring… — Peter Mayle
I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at last of a small house… — Abraham Cowley
For a man's house is his castle, et domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium [and one's home is the safest refuge to everyone]. — Edward Coke
When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both ... Our God is a… — John Ruskin
Every one in his own house and God in all of them. — Miguel de Cervantes
A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. For human beings are not… — Margaret Fuller
For a man's house is his castle. — Edward Coke
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… — Marguerite Duras
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… — Jerome K. Jerome
One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge. — Mark Twain
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house. — Ben Jonson
Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the… — William Lloyd Garrison
Your treasure house is within; it contains all you'll ever need. — Baizhang Huaihai
The adventurous state of mind is a high house... The joy of adventure is unaccountable. This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous… — Agnes Martin
You could walk out of the house, but you always returned home. — Witold Rybczynski
A house is not a home. — Polly Adler
In an audience of rough people a generous sentiment always brings down the house. In the tumult of war both sides applaud a heroic deed. — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Voltaire expected that within fifty years of his lifetime there would not be one Bible in the world. His house is now a distribution center… — Corrie Ten Boom
By the streets of 'by and by,' one arrives at the house of 'never'. — Miguel de Cervantes
Getting down on all fours and imitating a rhinoceros stops babies from crying. (Put an empty cigarette pack on your nose for a horn and… — P.J. O'Rourke
I look forward to hosting an Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan here at the White House later this week, and wish you a blessed month. — Barack Obama
Hang that question up in your houses, "What would Jesus do?" and then think of another, "How would Jesus do it?" for what he would… — Charles Spurgeon
Having been born into the house of a warrior, one's intentions should be to grasp the long and the short swords and to die. — Kato Kiyomasa
People who live in glass houses must reeeeeallly trust their neighbors. — Gregoire
I hope that Republicans in the House and Mr. Cantor will embrace that as part of immigration reform. — Dick Durbin

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