He makes his home where the living is best. – Proverb
It matters less to a person where they are born than where they can live. – Proverb
Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity. – Francis Bacon
The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation from the world. – Simone de Beauvoir
Peoples backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors. – John Betjeman
There are things you just cant do in life. You cant beat the phone company, you cant make a waiter see you until hes ready to see you, and you cant go home again. – Bill Bryson
The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron
Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore. – Thomas Campion
You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne. – Miguel de Cervantes
The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks. – G. K. Chesterton
Home — that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angels wings. – Lydia Maria Child
We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us. – Sir Winston Churchill
There is no place more delightful than ones own fireplace. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Nothing annoys a woman more than to have company drop in unexpectedly and find the house looking as it usually does. – Frank Dane
Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb — or Dome of Worm — or Porch of Gnome — or some Elfs Catacomb? – Emily Dickinson
