An exile with no home anywhere is a corpse without a grave.
—Publilius Syrus, 50 BCQuotes
The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1903Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1856It’s your business when your neighbor’s wall is in flames.
—Horace, 19 BCOne who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.
—Ptahhotep, c. 2400 BCGod walks among the pots and pans.
—Saint Teresa of Ávila, c. 1582For what do we live but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813Home is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
—Rose Macaulay, 1925Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
—William Morris, 1882The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
—Maya Angelou, 1986Being offended is the natural consequence of leaving one’s home.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1981People 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