I quit life as from an inn, not as from a home.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BC
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An 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, 1925The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1903God walks among the pots and pans.
—Saint Teresa of Ávila, c. 1582Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
—William Morris, 1882The 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, 1917Every house: temple, empire, school.
—Joseph Joubert, 1800Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
—Charles Dickens, 1843