A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in / A minute to smile and an hour to weep in.
—Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1895
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One who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.
—Ptahhotep, c. 2400 BCMen are merriest when they are from home.
—William Shakespeare, 1599The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1903In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
—Colette, 1944God walks among the pots and pans.
—Saint Teresa of Ávila, c. 1582For what do we live but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
—Norman Douglas, 1917At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
—Rose Macaulay, 1925The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
—Maya Angelou, 1986