It’s your business when your neighbor’s wall is in flames.
—Horace, 19 BC
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An American will build a house in which to pass his old age and sell it before the roof is on.
—Alexis de Tocqueville, 1840I quit life as from an inn, not as from a home.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BCOne who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.
—Ptahhotep, c. 2400 BCMany a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
—Norman Douglas, 1917Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
—William Morris, 1882Being offended is the natural consequence of leaving one’s home.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1981Men are merriest when they are from home.
—William Shakespeare, 1599An exile with no home anywhere is a corpse without a grave.
—Publilius Syrus, 50 BCAt the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
—Rose Macaulay, 1925