Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
—Norman Douglas, 1917
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It’s your business when your neighbor’s wall is in flames.
—Horace, 19 BCThe ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
—Maya Angelou, 1986The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1903For what do we live but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing’s as eternal as the dishes.
—Margaret Mahy, 1985Every house: temple, empire, school.
—Joseph Joubert, 1800God walks among the pots and pans.
—Saint Teresa of Ávila, c. 1582One 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, 1882