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An exile with no home anywhere is a corpse without a grave.

—Publilius Syrus, 50 BC

The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.

—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1903

Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1856

It’s your business when your neighbor’s wall is in flames.

—Horace, 19 BC

One who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.

—Ptahhotep, c. 2400 BC

God walks among the pots and pans.

—Saint Teresa of Ávila, c. 1582

For what do we live but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

—Jane Austen, 1813

Home is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse.

—George Bernard Shaw, 1903

At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

—Rose Macaulay, 1925

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

—William Morris, 1882

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

—Maya Angelou, 1986

Being offended is the natural consequence of leaving one’s home.

—Fran Lebowitz, 1981

People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing’s as eternal as the dishes.

—Margaret Mahy, 1985