HOUSE QUOTES

• There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
  ~ Homer ~
• This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands,-- This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.
  ~ William Shakespeare ~
• A house is built with bricks, and love with words is too.
  ~ Khayelihle Bongiswa Gamedze ~
• The worst enemy in life is the household enemy.
  ~ Jude Chukwuemeka Muoneke ~
• Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow.
  ~ Robert Frost ~
• We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
  ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe ~
• The tendancy of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined.
  ~ George Eliot ~
• The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense at all events just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least.
  ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
• Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.
  ~ Henry David Thoreau ~
• One watches them on the seashore, all the people, and there is something pathetic, almost wistful in them, as if they wished their lives did not add up to this scaly nullity of possession, but as if they could not escape. It is a dragon that has devoured us all: these obscene, scaly houses, this insatiable struggle and desire to possess, to possess always and in spite of everything, this need to be an owner, lest one be owned. It is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease. One feels a sort of madness come over one, as if the world had become hell. But it is only superimposed: it is only a temporary disease. It can be cleaned away.
  ~ D. H. Lawrence ~
• One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.
  ~ Emily Dickinson ~
• Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
  ~ Herman Melville ~
• May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for there is nothing greater and better than this -when a husband and wife keep a household in oneness of mind, a great woe to their enemies and joy to their friends, and win high renown.
  ~ Homer ~
• It is by no means certain that our individual personality is the single inhabitant of these our corporeal frames... We all do things both awake and asleep which surprise us. Perhaps we have cotenants in this house we live in.
  ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
• If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• He hath eaten me out of house and home.
  ~ William Shakespeare ~
• Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• Every burned book or house enlightens the world every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• A man builds a fine house and now he has a master, and a task for life he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• A good laugh is sunshine in a house.
  ~ William Makepeace Thackeray ~
• A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
  ~ Charles Baudelaire ~
• Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive. When I ride through Beverly Hills in the early morning, and all the sprinklers have turned off, the scents that wash over me are just heavenly. Being House is like flying, too. You're free of the gravity of what people think.
  ~ Hugh Laurie ~
• As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull. If I was House's friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don't always like morally good people, do we?
  ~ Hugh Laurie ~
• The interior of the house personifies the private world the exterior of it is part of the outside world.
  ~ Stephen Gardiner ~
• I'm not sure that some of the food purists are in touch with what really goes on in American households.
  ~ Sandra Lee ~
• Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house.
  ~ Bruce Barton ~
• Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house.
  ~ Bruce Barton ~
• I read somewhere that Mitt and I have a 'storybook marriage.' Well, in the storybooks I read, there were never long, long, rainy winter afternoons in a house with five boys screaming at once. And those storybooks never seemed to have chapters called MS or breast cancer.
  ~ Ann Romney ~
• Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with me, read with me. It was wonderful.
  ~ Fergie ~
• If Margaret Thatcher took climate change seriously and believed that we should take action to reduce global greenhouse emissions, then taking action and supporting and accepting the science can hardly be the mark of incipient Bolshevism.
  ~ Malcolm Turnbull ~
• I'm a private person too, and we don't ever film anything in our home because it's off limits. It's like letting people see your messy house.
  ~ Carrie Underwood ~
• It was a very bizarre experience for me, to get the songs together, go in there, and try to deliver them as I would perhaps in a live setting. But I realized that I couldn't take on that coffeehouse style that I came from and go in there and burn it up.
  ~ Jason Mraz ~
• My goal in the beginning was to buy my mother a house. Now I realize, okay, if I really focus and become a key player in business, then I can build an empire.
  ~ Nicki Minaj ~
• I didn't understand that I could sing until I was like 11 or 12. My mom heard me singing around the house and she said, What are you doing? You really can sing! So then I started going to school and singing to the girls.
  ~ Chris Brown ~
• I bought a house for my mom, I bought a house for my dad, I bought a house for my sister.
  ~ Trey Parker ~
• I bought a house for my mom, I bought a house for my dad, I bought a house for my sister.
  ~ Trey Parker ~
• I got into this little habit of architecture and building. I designed a house in Colorado and one in Hawaii. The idea is supposed to be build and sell - but then I can never bring myself to sell them.
  ~ Trey Parker ~
• I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong roles. I just want to see women who are characters! A nun, a serial killer, a housewife, as long as there's some depth there.
  ~ Martha Plimpton ~
• Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.
  ~ Thornton Wilder ~
• I was from such a large family that when I first met my wife, I told her: 'You can go work outside of the house and I'll stay home and continue making my cartoon strips. Maybe I'll make some commercials nearby, you know I'll do anything locally, but I would love to just stay at home and raise the kids like I did when I was growing up.'
  ~ Robert Rodriguez ~
• I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Robert Johnson, it blew my mind. It was something I'd been missing my whole life. That music made me discard everything else and just get down to the soul and honesty of the blues.
  ~ Jack White ~
• I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.
  ~ Cate Blanchett ~
• I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.
  ~ Cate Blanchett ~
• People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.
  ~ Henry James ~
• I'd see movies, comedies, and I loved 'Animal House', I loved all the John Hughes stuff, but I never saw me and my friends totally represented.
  ~ Kevin Smith ~
• I love Halloween, trick or treating and decorating the house. And I love Thanksgiving, because of the football and the fall weather. And of course, I love Christmas - that's my favorite of all!
  ~ Joe Nichols ~
• I love Halloween, trick or treating and decorating the house. And I love Thanksgiving, because of the football and the fall weather. And of course, I love Christmas - that's my favorite of all!
  ~ Joe Nichols ~
• The Postal Service's unmatched ability to reach every household and business in America six days a week is a vital part of the nation's infrastructure.
  ~ Joe Baca ~
• I'm not at the point where I'd feel safe in a house alone. I would be really scared. I'm the kind of person that when I get up to go use the bathroom I have this big long hallway, and I just know someone's going to jump out and get me.
  ~ Britney Spears ~
• I don't allow anybody to change me. I still walk outta my house in rollers and I take walks. I do not care what people think.
  ~ Britney Spears ~
• I'm not at the point where I'd feel safe in a house alone. I would be really scared. I'm the kind of person that when I get up to go use the bathroom I have this big long hallway, and I just know someone's going to jump out and get me.
  ~ Britney Spears ~
• For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
  ~ Edward Abbey ~
• My siblings and I were friends with the boys who would become our stepbrothers - we grew up on the same street. I feel very special to have these amazing people in my life and if we hadn't all moved into this big house together I think I would have missed out on that, because we would have drifted apart.
  ~ Florence Welch ~
• If your goal is to be the biggest movie star in the world, a 10-movie contract is gold. It was never my goal. Up until now, I made movies - and I have a nice house, a nice car. I'm fortunate, happy and grateful. Life is good.
  ~ Chris Evans ~
• If your goal is to be the biggest movie star in the world, a 10-movie contract is gold. It was never my goal. Up until now, I made movies - and I have a nice house, a nice car. I'm fortunate, happy and grateful. Life is good.
  ~ Chris Evans ~
• I remember being a kid and sleeping over at my friend's house and staying up late and watching 'Nosferatu.' Vampire movies are supposed to be secret and bad. They should be rated R.
  ~ Ethan Hawke ~
• The corporate woman has been defined as the 'liberated woman' and I see that as the exact opposite. I think she now is more enslaved, maybe even more than the housewife was because she's so out of her power, and imitating male power is not female power.
  ~ Kenny Loggins ~
• What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a place to take a stand and use my voice to express what I believed in. But I've no longer got any political aspirations. I feel that as a politician, fifty per cent of people would hate you before you even left the house.
  ~ Jon Bon Jovi ~
• A sold-out house my first night back. Do you have any idea what kinda pressure that is? I could have been at home in my warm bed, playing Nintendo.
  ~ Richard Pryor ~
• I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It's the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is 'Delete.'
  ~ Elayne Boosler ~
• I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It's the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is 'Delete.'
  ~ Elayne Boosler ~
• I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It's the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is 'Delete.'
  ~ Elayne Boosler ~
• I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It's the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is 'Delete.'
  ~ Elayne Boosler ~
• I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It's the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is 'Delete.'
  ~ Elayne Boosler ~
• Having your fiscal house in order and having a more manageable macro-economic future is going to be very useful in creating growth.
  ~ Fareed Zakaria ~
• Officials at the White House are saying that President Bush hasn't changed his schedule much since the war started. The main difference, they say, is that he's started watching the news and taping Sponge Bob.
  ~ Conan O'brien ~
• If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?
  ~ Imran Khan ~
• My mom decorated with lots of antiques. I never liked it when I was a little girl - I wanted to live in a modern house. But now I love it.
  ~ Paris Hilton ~
• We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.
  ~ Jean Anouilh ~
• Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded.
  ~ Mike Myers ~
• I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.
  ~ Toni Morrison ~
• But while mum and dad were incredibly caring, it was also a very chaotic household where everyone fought about everything. So I know what it's like to internalize all that chaos.
  ~ Dave Eggers ~
• In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don't cost much to be housed.
  ~ Terry Eagleton ~
• In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don't cost much to be housed.
  ~ Terry Eagleton ~
• When you walk out of your house in the morning, you don't know what you're going to see.
  ~ Kyle Chandler ~
• There is a fundamental situation in which the country has reached rock bottom, that a mother can't send her children out of the house in the morning. The country has reached rock bottom and this needs to be changed.
  ~ Benjamin Netanyahu ~
• I say, If everybody in this house lives where it's God first, friends and family second and you third, we won't ever have an argument.
  ~ Jeff Foxworthy ~
• I say, If everybody in this house lives where it's God first, friends and family second and you third, we won't ever have an argument.
  ~ Jeff Foxworthy ~
• I say, If everybody in this house lives where it's God first, friends and family second and you third, we won't ever have an argument.
  ~ Jeff Foxworthy ~
• I also have a soft spot for spicy chicken wings. They are always best eaten at dives and sports bars, like Wogie's in the West Village, New York City, near my house.
  ~ Gail Simmons ~
• I'm tempted by everything. My husband makes fun of me because every day it's a new food that I love. I have a weakness for butterscotch pudding, ice cream in any flavor and dark chocolate, although that's one thing I do keep in my house - 70% dark chocolate.
  ~ Gail Simmons ~
• It's funny that there was so much disturbance about having a Catholic in the White House with Kennedy, and when we finally get a religion in the White House that's causing a lot of conflicts, and concerns, and disturbances for a lot of people, it's in the Bush Administration.
  ~ Roger Ebert ~
• It's funny that there was so much disturbance about having a Catholic in the White House with Kennedy, and when we finally get a religion in the White House that's causing a lot of conflicts, and concerns, and disturbances for a lot of people, it's in the Bush Administration.
  ~ Roger Ebert ~
• We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.
  ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah ~
• My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers.
  ~ Imelda Marcos ~
• I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.
  ~ Billie Joe Armstrong ~
• I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted big murals and oil paintings.
  ~ Rainn Wilson ~
• I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted big murals and oil paintings.
  ~ Rainn Wilson ~
• My dad has sometimes felt that I grew up a little lacking in sufficient eccentricity - in the sense that I'm willing to live as an adult in a house with walls that are parallel to each other, that sort of thing.
  ~ Jaron Lanier ~
• Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?
  ~ Jackie Kennedy ~
• By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
  ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh ~
• Because I'm always away, coming home to a clean house means a lot to me. Trust me, I've lived with a lot of roommates, and straight guys are just kids who don't pick up after themselves.
  ~ Kellan Lutz ~
• I dated a guy and he liked me but I didn't like him. I went through his wardrobe and cleaned out his house and got him to get a new car. He said to me, 'If I give you $10,000, will you find me my wife because I want someone like you?' And within a year, he got married. That was the first match that led to me leaving my corporate job.
  ~ Patti Stanger ~
• I grew up in a house where my father encouraged my brother and me to fail. I specifically remember coming home and saying, 'Dad, Dad, I tried out for this or that and I was horrible,' and he would high-five me and say, 'Way to go.'
  ~ Sara Blakely ~
• I grew up in a house where my father encouraged my brother and me to fail. I specifically remember coming home and saying, 'Dad, Dad, I tried out for this or that and I was horrible,' and he would high-five me and say, 'Way to go.'
  ~ Sara Blakely ~
• I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures.
  ~ Jane Smiley ~
• My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.
  ~ Richard Branson ~
• The funny thing is people won't let me pay for things. I'll be in a restaurant and the manager will say, 'Oh no, it's on the house.'
  ~ Richard Branson ~
• My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.
  ~ Richard Branson ~