Peace – that was the other name for home. – Kathleen Norris

When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones. – Peter De Vries

It takes hands to build a house, but only hearts can build a home. – Author Unknown

It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there. – Elsie De Wolfe

Home is any four walls that enclose the right person. – Helen Rowland

Every house where love abides And friendship is a guest, Is surely home, and home sweet home, For there the heart can rest. – Henry Van Dyke

I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don’t want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house. – Jerome K. Jerome

I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world. – George Washington

Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need. – Sarah Ban Breathnach

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration. – Charles Dickens

If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful. – William Morris

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace. – Gaston Bachelard

Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to. – John Ed Pearce

Home is not where you live but where they understand you. – Christian Morgenstern

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience. – Sydney Smith

Where we love is home, Home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Homesick in Heaven

A house is not a home. – Polly Adler

My home is not a place, it is people. – Lois McMaster Bujold

The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes. – Harold B. Lee

You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it’s all right. – Maya Angelou

For a man’s house is his castle. – Lord Edward Coke

Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore. – Thomas Campion

The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do is destroyed, laid waste or eaten within twenty four hours. – Lady Kasluck

The stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand! Amidst their tall ancestral trees, O’er all the pleasant land. – Mrs. Felicia D. Hemans

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. – Jane Austen

What’s the good of a home if you are never in it? – George Grossmith and Weedon Grossmith

I am far frae my hame, an’ i’m weary aften whiles, For the longed-for hame-bringing an’ my Father’s welcome smiles. – Erastus W. Ellsworth

Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn’t done it. – Evan Esar

My house, my house, though thou art small, thou art to me the Escuriall. – George Herbert

The whitewash’d wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish’d clock that click’d behind the door; The chest contriv’d a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day. – Oliver Goldsmith