Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
—Charles Dickens, 1843
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Home is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903God walks among the pots and pans.
—Saint Teresa of Ávila, c. 1582An exile with no home anywhere is a corpse without a grave.
—Publilius Syrus, 50 BCHatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.
—Rebecca West, 1912Men are merriest when they are from home.
—William Shakespeare, 1599Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.
—Samuel Johnson, 1771Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
—Norman Douglas, 1917An 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 BC