Houses Quote by Francis Bacon Sr Download Open image “Houses are built to live in and not to look on.” — Francis Bacon Sr ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Houses
Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Houses are like books: so many of them around you, yet you only look at a few and visit or reside in fewer still. — Milorad Pavić Copy Share Image
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 Sr Copy Share Image
The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of… — John Green Copy Share Image
One must live to build one's house, and not build one's house to live in. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Houses are like people - some you like and some you don't like - and once in a while there is one you love. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People who build their own home tend to be very courageous. These people are curious about life. They're thinking about what it means to… — Tom Kundig Copy Share Image
Don’t lie. You know you like to view but not to buy. I have found that I am not a space where people want… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
This delivering of knowledge in distinct and disjointed aphorisms doth leave the wit of man more free to turn and toss, and to make… — Francis Bacon Sr Copy Share Image
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no… — Francis Bacon Sr Copy Share Image
Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than for counsel, and fitter for new projects than for settled business. — Francis Bacon Sr Copy Share Image
The best preservative to keep the mind on health is the faithful admonition of a friend. — Francis Bacon Sr Copy Share Image
He that defers his charity until he is dead is, if a man weighs it rightly, rather liberal of another man's goods than his… — Francis Bacon Sr Copy Share Image
The desire for power in excess caused angels to fall; the desire for knowledge in excess caused man to fall; but in charity is… — Francis Bacon Sr Copy Share Image
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. — Francis Bacon Sr Copy Share Image
One of the first houses we lived in was like out of a fairy story. We had a stream that ran through our garden,… — Emilia Clarke Copy Share Image
“A thousand years or more ago, When I was newly sewn, There lived four wizards of renown, Whose name are still well-known: Bold Gryffindor… — JK Rowling Copy Share Image
My nan was a nursery maid. Most people weren't in big houses. They were maids of all work. — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
Americans who visit Tuscany or Umbria love the landscape: the silvery olive groves, the fields of sunflowers, the vineyards, the stone houses and barns. — Anthony Lewis Copy Share Image
Once I tried to make a standardization of staircases. Probably that is one of the oldest of the standardizations. Of course, we design new… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
I certainly think that the publishing houses have to learn more about this informal network of literary blogging and get over the idea that… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build. — Ted Baillieu Copy Share Image
“And modern houses don't have passages, either, for children to play and run about in, and for dogs, umbrellas, coats and satchels. And don't… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
Gadgets - our houses are filled with them: ones we need, ones we think we need, and others that were a good idea at… — Sheherazade Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Heaven and God are not high above us, far away; they are deep within us. Heaven is not a distant country where there are… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
