House Quotes

• A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Happiness, Laughter, Inspiration

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• Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. We slowly drove, he knew no haste, And I had put away My labour, and my leisure too, For his civility. We passed the school where children played, Their lessons scarcely done; We passed the fields of gazing grain, We passed the setting sun. We paused before a house that seemed A swelling of the ground; The roof was scarcely visible, The cornice but a mound. Since then 'tis centuries; but each Feels shorter than the day I first surmised the horses' heads Were toward eternity.

  Emily Dickinson

  Horse, Children, School

  'Because I could not stop for Death' (c.1863)

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• Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Wall, Women

  Helen Rowland (1909). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”

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• The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Friendship, Relationship

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.253, Harvard University Press

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• Your house is your larger body.

  Khalil Gibran

  Body

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Shamus ordered half a cup of house brew. Then he proceeded to fill the cup up the rest of the way with milk and sugar. Lots of sugar. “Sure you got enough milk in your sugar?” I asked as we strolled out of the shop and headed south. He flipped me off. “You drink your coffee your way, and I’ll drink my coffee the right way.

  Devon Monk

  Coffee, Half, Sugar

  Devon Monk (2009). “Magic in the Shadows: An Allie Beckstrom Novel”, p.219, Penguin

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• There is an Indian proverb that says that everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an emtional, and a spiritual . Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time but unless we go into every room every day, even if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete person.

  Rumer Godden

  Spiritual, Emotional, People

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• A house is a machine for living in.

  Le Corbusier

  Life, Home, Machines

  Vers une Architecture ch. 1 (1923)

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• When a man's home is born out of his heart and developed through his labor and perfected through his sense of beauty, it is the very cornerstone of life.

  Gustav Stickley

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

  Gustav Stickley (1916). “The Craftsman: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine in the Interest of Better Art, Better Work, and a Better and More Reasonable Way of Living”

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• A wealth you cannot imagine flows through you. Do not consider what strangers say. Be secluded in your secret heart-house, that bowl of silence.

  Rumi

  Heart, Silence, Secret

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• A man's house is his castle.

  James Otis

  Home, Men, Castles

  Argument against the writs of assistance, Boston, Mass., Feb. 1761. Burton Stevenson, Home Book of Proverbs, Maxims and Familiar Phrases (1948), traces the proverb "A man's house is his castle" back to 1567 and notes legal usages of it by Sir Edward Coke in the seventeenth century. See Coke 1; Coke 8; William Pitt, Earl of Chatham 2

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• Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

  William Morris

  Life, Happiness, Beauty

  Hopes and Fears for Art "The Beauty of Life" (1882)

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• The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Education, Wise

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• A house is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Hilarious, Witty

  George Carlin (2015). “3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, p.43, Hachette UK

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• No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want, need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart.

  Stephen King

  Fake People, Heart, Bad Friend

  Stephen King (1987). “It: 2”, Signet

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• Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Heart, Roots

  "Overcoming Self-Doubt — What I Have Been Learning From Rumi" by Faisal Hoque, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2015.

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• Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together.

  Sarah Dessen

  Home, People, Together

  "What Happened To Goodbye". Book by Sarah Dessen, May 10, 2011.

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• Imagine yourself as a living house.

  C. S. Lewis

  Imagine

  C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.298, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Getting your house in order and reducing the confusion gives you more control over your life. Personal organization some how releases or frees you to operate more effectively.

  Larry King

  Order, Organization, Giving

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• Learn to relax. Your body is precious, as it houses your mind and spirit. Inner peace begins with a relaxed body.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Fitness, Patience, Inner Peace

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• A house without books is like a room without windows.

  Horace Mann

  Life, Happiness, Attitude

  "The Duty of Owning Books". Book by Horace Mann, 1859.

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• We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Fashion, Clothes, Needs

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• A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

  William James

  Dance, Humor, Common Sense

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• Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York; And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Ocean, Winter

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.98, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• I'm death obsessed. You know, I have death all over my house. I have a stuffed two headed sheep!

  Kirk Hammett

  Two, Sheep, Obsession

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