A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in / A minute to smile and an hour to weep in.
—Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1895
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It’s your business when your neighbor’s wall is in flames.
—Horace, 19 BCHome is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903Men are merriest when they are from home.
—William Shakespeare, 1599I quit life as from an inn, not as from a home.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BCHatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.
—Rebecca West, 1912God walks among the pots and pans.
—Saint Teresa of Ávila, c. 1582People 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, 1985Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
—Norman Douglas, 1917An exile with no home anywhere is a corpse without a grave.
—Publilius Syrus, 50 BC