Cottages Quotes

Cottages Quote of the day

Let new India arise out of peasants' cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper.

You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage but He is building a palace. He intends to come & live in it Himself

There are good hearts to serve men in palaces as in cottages.

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.

I love to live alone in my own little cottage, where I can spend much time in prayer, etc

For serenity, always prefer the cottage to the palace!

Let us prefer the lonely cottage, while blest with liberty, to gilded palaces, surrounded with the ensigns of slavery.

A cottage will hold as much happiness as would stock a palace.

[On Denmark:] ... that little country of cottage cheese and courage.

Every antique farm-house and moss-grown cottage is a picture.

Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?

With equal pace, impartial Fate Knocks at the palace, as the cottage gate.

In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts.

All the wars of the world, all the Caesars, have not the staying power of a lily in a cottage garden.

We are like people with short-term leases on summer cottages; we can never seem to make our provisions come out even with our stay.

For the first few years we lived in a tiny rented cottage at the bottom of a friend's garden. We often joked that there was plenty of film in the fridge, but not too much food!

It is quite interesting that whilst there are tremendous theories, in the 1960s when IT was born, everybody was supposedly going to their cottage in the countryside to work in a virtual way.

Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.

For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all; No palace too great, no cottage too small.

Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.

With both agents and publishers hungry for bestsellers, literature will have to end up as a cottage industry.

He stood beside a cottage lone And listened to a lute, One summer's eve, when the breeze was gone, And the nightingale was mute.

I see myself as a private-equity investor that helps rebuild companies. Restructuring is a cottage industry in that there aren't that many serious practitioners.

For a beggar to live at court is not so much as the King to dwell with him in his cottage.

I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.

To help my muscles rebuild after I work out, I have a small serving of cottage cheese.

Life is very nice in Hawaii. I rent a place that has its own cottage so when my friends and family come to visit, they have somewhere nice to stay.

I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business.

Overnight I became a cottage industry.

I would sooner live in a cottage and wonder at everything than live in a castle and wonder at nothing!

Khaddar does not displace a single cottage industry.

You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it himself. (Quoted by C.S.Lewis in Mere Christianity)

Mr Michener, as timeless as a stack of 'National Geographics,' is the ultimate Summer Writer. Just as one goes back to the cottage in Maine, so one goes back to one's Michener.

You can't possibly fathom the ins and outs of a prepubescent beauty treatment until you've felt the strange but exhilarating tingle of a cottage-cheese-and-Pop-Rocks facial.

Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.

Surely heaven must have something of the color and shape of whatever village or hill or cottage of which the believer says, This is my own.

The cottage industry of India had to perish in order that Lancashire might flourish.

Come little cottage girl, you seem to want my cup of tea; and will you take a little cream? Now tell the truth to me!

You're buying for the benefit of the cottage experience at a fraction of the price.

The wolf sniffed beneath the door to be sure this was a human cottage. The scent was undeniable. No pigs, except in bacon form. The wolf thought bacon form was a very sensible way for pigs to behave.

An English village could never be mistaken for an American one: the outline against the sky differs; a thatched cottage makes a very wavy line on the blue above.

I cannot get into cottage cheese, and I've tried a lot. Yogurt is hard for me to eat, too. I have to hold my nose to get it down. There's something wrong with that.

It's definitely safer to be single, especially with this cottage industry that's devoted to extorting celebrities.

Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God's care and pity for every separate need.

If you have good neighbours, you can bear living in a bad cottage; if you have bad neighbours, you can't bear living even in a good palace!

I still see myself as a bit of a cottage industry. Being in a room creating stuff and seeing if anyone wants it, as opposed to going to work for someone.

If we are more affected by the ruin of a palace than by the conflagration of a cottage, our humanity must have formed a very erroneous estimate of the miseries of human life.

Cottages have them (falsehood and dissimulation) as well as courts, only with worse manners.

Glory darts her soul-pervading ray on thrones and cottages, regardless still of all the artificial nice distinctions vain human customs make.

Pale death approaches with equal step, and knocks indiscriminately at the door of teh cottage, and the portals of the palace.