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
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Men are merriest when they are from home.
—William Shakespeare, 1599Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
—Charles Dickens, 1843The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1903Every house: temple, empire, school.
—Joseph Joubert, 1800An exile with no home anywhere is a corpse without a grave.
—Publilius Syrus, 50 BCHome 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, 1925For what do we live but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in / A minute to smile and an hour to weep in.
—Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1895