It’s your business when your neighbor’s wall is in flames.
—Horace, 19 BC
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The 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, 1917One who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.
—Ptahhotep, c. 2400 BCHave nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
—William Morris, 1882I quit life as from an inn, not as from a home.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BCAn American will build a house in which to pass his old age and sell it before the roof is on.
—Alexis de Tocqueville, 1840Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.
—Rebecca West, 1912Every house: temple, empire, school.
—Joseph Joubert, 1800An exile with no home anywhere is a corpse without a grave.
—Publilius Syrus, 50 BC