Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

home

A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman. 10 sayings from Marlene Dietrich

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others. 68 wisdom & wit from Samuel Butler

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. 7 other quotes from Phillips Brooks

Going home must be like going to render an account. 14 wisdom & wit from Joseph Conrad

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home. 7 quotes from William E. Gladstone

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience. 19 more quotes from Woodrow Wilson

Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at. 2 wisdom & wit from Bill Ayers

My home has always been show business. 17 more quotes from Sammy Davis, Jr.

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night. 18 quotes from Margaret Mead

The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not. 4 quotes from Adolf Loos

The show doesn't drive home a lesson, but it can open up people's minds enough for them to see how stupid every kind of prejudice can be. 4 more quotes from Redd Foxx

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. 21 more wisdom & wit from Jane Austen

Where thou art, that is home. 26 views from Emily Dickinson

You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home. 10 quotes from Og Mandino

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. 96 quotes from Benjamin Franklin

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing. 29 wisdom & wit from W. Somerset Maugham

Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian. 5 quotes from E. Stanley Jones

Charity begins at home, but should not end there. 45 more sayings from Thomas Fuller

Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart. 2 more quotes from Freya Stark

God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk. 11 wisdom & wit from Meister Eckhart

Home is any four walls that enclose the right person. 23 wisdom & wit from Helen Rowland

Home is where the heart is. 5 more views from Pliny the Elder

Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it. 6 other thoughts from Evan Esar

I can't imagine dating a boy, meeting him only outside the home. What's a home and family for if it's not the center of one's life? 14 sayings from Loretta Young

I never worry about being driven to drink I just worry about being driven home. 24 thoughts from W. C. Fields

If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse. 45 quotes from Thomas Fuller

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head. 19 more quotes from Elvis Presley

Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown. 13 more wisdom & wit from Stephen Gardiner

Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home. 14 more thoughts from Loretta Young

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me. 19 quotes from Elvis Presley

On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people and then I go home alone. 5 thoughts from Janis Joplin

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone. 5 more quotes from Janis Joplin

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals. 10 quotes from Edward Abbey

What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart? 25 more quotes from Orison Swett Marden

A man's house is his castle. 3 sayings from James Otis

At home, you always have to be a politician when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman. 6 views from Harold MacMillan

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door. 26 more quotes from Charles Dickens

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. 6 wisdom & wit from Babe Ruth

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. 26 quotes from Charles Dickens

I believe my woman shouldn't work outside the home. 5 more quotes from Oliver Reed

I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run. 6 other views from Babe Ruth

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home. 4 more quotes from James A. Michener

My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long. 7 quotes from Buffalo Bill

My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west. 7 more quotes from Buffalo Bill

The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose. 2 other thoughts from Edward Coke

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home. 11 quotes from James Joyce

Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games. 6 more quotes from Babe Ruth

A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside inside is more often his nursery. 11 other quotes from Clare Boothe Luce

At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrased in front of our friends. 5 sayings from Knute Rockne

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there. 11 other wisdom & wit from Clare Boothe Luce

Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments. 4 quotes from Channing Pollock

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. 50 other wisdom & wit from Robert Frost

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt. 11 quotes from Henrik Ibsen

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad. 27 other wisdom & wit from James Madison

Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure. 9 other views from Lawrence Welk

The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad. 27 quotes from James Madison

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home. 27 quotes from James Madison

To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise. 5 more views from Augustus Hare

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past. 9 quotes from Vladimir Nabokov

Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners. 4 views from Charles Henry Parkhurst

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry. 42 other quotes from Josh Billings

I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home. 38 more quotes from William Hazlitt

Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home. 12 other quotes from Thornton Wilder

The home is the chief school of human virtues. 11 quotes from William Ellery Channing

Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home. 18 quotes from Washington Irving

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. 3 more quotes from Edward R. Murrow

When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home. 12 thoughts from Thornton Wilder

A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. 9 quotes from Margaret Fuller

Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home. 26 other views from Sigmund Freud

Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. 9 other quotes from John Cheever

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers. 23 thoughts from E. W. Howe

Philosophy is properly home-sickness the wish to be everywhere at home. 10 other quotes from Novalis

The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home. 23 thoughts from E. W. Howe

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home. 11 wisdom & wit from John Stuart Mill

To be an ideal guest, stay at home. 23 quotes from E. W. Howe

Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home. 2 other views from Gwendolyn Brooks

I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home. 3 thoughts from Dorothy L. Sayers

Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman. 18 quotes from Pearl S. Buck

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence. 59 more wisdom & wit from Elbert Hubbard

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls. 53 quotes from Marilyn Monroe

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits. 12 quotes from Casey Stengel

Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home. 6 more sayings from Emily Bronte

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo. 115 sayings from George Bernard Shaw

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad. 115 more thoughts from George Bernard Shaw

I have always drawn strength from being close to home. 10 more sayings from Arthur Ashe

I left home because I was hungry. 5 more wisdom & wit from Red Skelton

I love cats because I enjoy my home and little by little, they become its visible soul. 24 quotes from Jean Cocteau

I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool. 4 quotes from Natalie Wood

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. 9 more quotes from Satchel Paige

Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits. 12 views from Casey Stengel

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time. 10 more thoughts from Hermann Hesse

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life. 115 wisdom & wit from George Bernard Shaw

There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. 2 other thoughts from Smedley Butler

Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad! 7 more sayings from Marcus Garvey

Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There's always something. 5 wisdom & wit from Will Cuppy

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows. 8 quotes from Jeremy Taylor

I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows. 18 views from Andy Warhol

I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs. 18 thoughts from Andy Warhol

In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic. 24 other quotes from Lyndon B. Johnson

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action. 18 quotes from Mother Teresa

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home. 18 thoughts from Mother Teresa

Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you. 14 other quotes from Ogden Nash

Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home. 4 quotes from Henry Drummond

Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs. 9 quotes from Alfred Hitchcock

Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired. 31 more quotes from Mae West

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves. 24 quotes from Lyndon B. Johnson

Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing? 16 quotes from Samuel Goldwyn

You see much more of your children once they leave home. 11 sayings from Lucille Ball

Home is where one starts from. 23 more quotes from T. S. Eliot

Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home. 27 more quotes from Kin Hubbard

Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best. 27 quotes from Kin Hubbard

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home. 63 wisdom & wit from Samuel Johnson

The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store. 27 thoughts from Kin Hubbard

Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark. 6 more views from O. Henry

Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home. 4 thoughts from Roald Dahl

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris. 103 other quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home. 9 more views from John Dewey

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. 4 other views from Lin Yutang

Seek home for rest, for home is best. 4 other quotes from Thomas Tusser

The home should be the treasure chest of living. 5 more views from Le Corbusier

The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home. 6 wisdom & wit from William Temple

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home. 33 other views from Dwight D. Eisenhower

A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. 3 more sayings from George Edward Moore

Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is. 9 thoughts from Charles M. Schulz

Home is the place we love best and grumble the most. 10 quotes from Billy Sunday

How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home. 12 quotes from William Cowper

I ask myself: Would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm instead of shock treatments and medication? 12 wisdom & wit from Gene Tierney

I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere. 11 more quotes from Jawaharlal Nehru

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. 21 more thoughts from Dale Carnegie

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave. 32 more quotes from Martin Luther

Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well. 13 wisdom & wit from Amos Bronson Alcott