It’s your business when your neighbor’s wall is in flames.
—Horace, 19 BC
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Being offended is the natural consequence of leaving one’s home.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1981One who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.
—Ptahhotep, c. 2400 BCCharity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
—Charles Dickens, 1843Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.
—Samuel Johnson, 1771Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.
—Rebecca West, 1912Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
—William Morris, 1882God walks among the pots and pans.
—Saint Teresa of Ávila, c. 1582The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
—Maya Angelou, 1986Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
—Norman Douglas, 1917