Quotes & anectdotes from the wise, the foolish, the courageous & the drunk

home

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

Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners. 4 wisdom & wit 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 more 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 wisdom & wit from William Hazlitt

Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home. 12 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 other views from Washington Irving

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. 3 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 other wisdom & wit from Thornton Wilder

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

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

Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. 9 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 other quotes from E. W. Howe

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

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

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home. 11 more quotes 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 quotes from Gwendolyn Brooks

I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home. 3 views 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 more quotes from Pearl S. Buck

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence. 59 quotes 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 wisdom & wit from Marilyn Monroe

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits. 12 more thoughts 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 quotes from Emily Bronte

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

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

I have always drawn strength from being close to home. 10 other views 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 other quotes from Jean Cocteau

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

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

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

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

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life. 115 thoughts 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 views from Smedley Butler

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

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

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

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

In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic. 24 sayings 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 more views 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 views from Ogden Nash

Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home. 4 more 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 other sayings 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 other quotes from Samuel Goldwyn

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

Home is where one starts from. 23 other views from T. S. Eliot

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

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

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

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

Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark. 6 more thoughts 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 views from Roald Dahl

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

Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home. 9 quotes 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 thoughts from Lin Yutang

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

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

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

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

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

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

Home is the place we love best and grumble the most. 10 views 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 more quotes from Gene Tierney

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

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

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

Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well. 13 other thoughts from Amos Bronson Alcott

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 more views from Marlene Dietrich

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

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

Going home must be like going to render an account. 14 sayings from Joseph Conrad

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home. 7 more views 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 sayings from Bill Ayers

My home has always been show business. 17 other views 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 more views 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 quotes from Redd Foxx

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. 21 views from Jane Austen

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

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

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. 96 more thoughts 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 other quotes from W. Somerset Maugham

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

Charity begins at home, but should not end there. 45 quotes 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 views from Freya Stark

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

Home is any four walls that enclose the right person. 23 sayings from Helen Rowland

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

Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it. 6 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 more wisdom & wit from Loretta Young

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

If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse. 45 other 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 sayings from Elvis Presley

Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown. 13 quotes from Stephen Gardiner

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

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

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

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone. 5 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 more 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 other sayings from Orison Swett Marden

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

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

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

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. 6 views 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 quotes from Oliver Reed

I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run. 6 wisdom & wit 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 thoughts from James A. Michener

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

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

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

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

A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside inside is more often his nursery. 11 wisdom & wit 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 quotes from Knute Rockne

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there. 11 thoughts from Clare Boothe Luce

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

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

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt. 11 more wisdom & wit 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 more quotes from James Madison

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

The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad. 27 wisdom & wit 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 wisdom & wit from Augustus Hare