Quotes About
The Home...
Television enables you to be entertained in
your home by people you wouldn't have in your
home.
David Frost
There is no reason for any individual to have
a computer in his home.
Ken Olson, President, Digital
Equipment, 1977
My mother used to say that there are no strangers,
only friends you haven't met yet. She's now
in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.
Dame Edna Everage
We live in an age when pizza gets to your home
before the police.
Jeff Marder
Human beings are the only creatures that allow
their children to come back home.
Bill Cosby
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home;
but, unlike charity, it should end there.
Clare Booth Luce
The best way to keep children home is to make
the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air
out of the tires.
Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
I take my children everywhere, but they always
find their way back home.
Robert Orben
Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam,
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like
home.
John Howard Payne
The trouble in corporate America is that too
many people with too much power live in a box
(their home), then travel the same road every
day to another box (their office).
Faith Popcorn, The Popcorn
Report, 1991
True luck consists not in holding the best
of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who
knows just when to rise and go home.
John Hay, Distichs, latter
19th century
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the
architect can only advise his client to plant
vines - so they should go as far as possible
from home to build their first buildings.
Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 -
1959), New York Times Magazine, October 4, 1953
Don't stay long when the husband is not at
home.
Japanese Proverb
Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not
ready to entertain him is not at home.
Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner,
so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame
none but himself.
Louis L'Amour, 'Bendigo Shafter'
A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.
Aristophanes
(450 BC - 385 BC), Plutus, 388 B.C.
Charity begins at home.
Publius Terentius Afer (190
BC - 159 BC), Andria
Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.
William Shakespeare (1564 -
1616), "The Two Gentlemen of Verona",
Act 1 scene 1
He hath eaten me out of house and home.
William Shakespeare (1564 -
1616), "King Henry IV Part II", Act
2 scene 1
The happiest moments of my life have a been
the few which I have passed at home in the bosom
of my family.
Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
A person travels the world over in search of
what he needs and returns home to find it.
George Moore
I was simply furnishing a home. I love music
... and I don't think a $130,000 indoor-outdoor
stereo system is extravagant.
Leona Helmsley, 1990, refuting
charges that her lifestyle was excessive
Teach children to be polite and courteous in
the home, and, when he grows up, he will never
be able to edge his car onto a freeway.
Unknown
The words that a father speaks to his children
in the privacy of home are not heard by the
world, but, as in whispering galleries, they
are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.
Ricther
There is plenty of peace in any home where
the family doesn't make the mistake of trying
to get together.
Kin [F. McKinney] Hubbard
A house is made of walls and beams; a home
is built with love and dreams.
Author Unknown
Life is all one piece. Men err when they think
they can be inhuman exploiters in their business
life, and loving husbands and fathers at home.
For achievement without love is a cold and tight-lipped
murderer of human happiness everywhere.
Smiley Blanton 
