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What is home?
-Anon.
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A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home.
-Chinese Proverb
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He makes his home where the living is best.
-Proverb
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It matters less to a person where they are born than where they can live.
-Proverb
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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
-Gaston Bachelard
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Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
-Francis Bacon
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The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation from the world.
-Simone de Beauvoir
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People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.
-John Betjeman
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Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.
-Sarah Ban Breathnach
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There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again.
-Bill Bryson
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The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.
-Thomas Campion
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You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.
-Miguel de Cervantes
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A man's home is his wife's castle.
-Alexander Chase
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The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail -- its roof may shake -- the wind may blow through it -- the storm may enter -- the rain may enter -- but the King of England cannot enter! -- all his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!
-William Pitt The Elder Chatham
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The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.
-G. K. Chesterton
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Home -- that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings.
-Lydia Maria Child
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We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.
-Sir Winston Churchill
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There is no place more delightful than one's own fireplace.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
-Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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Going home must be like going to render an account.
-Joseph Conrad
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A house is a machine for living in.
-Le Corbusier
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Nothing annoys a woman more than to have company drop in unexpectedly and find the house looking as it usually does.
-Frank Dane
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Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.
-Charles Dickens
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Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb -- or Dome of Worm -- or Porch of Gnome -- or some Elf's Catacomb?
-Emily Dickinson
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Books about Home
