God walks among the pots and pans.
—Saint Teresa of Ávila, c. 1582
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Being offended is the natural consequence of leaving one’s home.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1981Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1856Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
—William Morris, 1882For what do we live but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813I quit life as from an inn, not as from a home.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BCAn exile with no home anywhere is a corpse without a grave.
—Publilius Syrus, 50 BCAn American will build a house in which to pass his old age and sell it before the roof is on.
—Alexis de Tocqueville, 1840In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
—Colette, 1944One who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.
—Ptahhotep, c. 2400 BC