House Quotes

Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools than scholars, and enough to spare for government besides.

The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home.

My friend, you thought you lost Him; that all your life you've been separated from Him. Filled with wonder, you've always looked outside for Him, and haven't searched within your own house.

I would love to rent a little cottage or cabin in Colorado and learn to ski or snowboard. And on the warmer side, I also want to rent a house in Hawaii and learn to surf!

By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?

A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers; a home is built of loving deeds that stand a thousand years.

This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. Welcome and entertain them all!

I love New Orleans physically. I love the trees and the balmy air and the beautiful days. I have a beautiful house here.

One day, when I own a house, I'll keep a library full of books. Books are different from other possessions-they're more like friends.

When you bring the light into your dark house, that is when you see the cobwebs and spiders

Still it cried ‘Sleep no more!’ to all the house: ‘Glamis hath murder’d sleep, and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more,—Macbeth shall sleep no more!

People must work things out for themselves. It is no good saying, "I have found a house which suits me and therefore everybody must adopt the same kind of house."

I've been doing the Fonda workout: the Peter Fonda workout. That's where I wake up, take a hit of acid, smoke a joint, and go to my sister's house and ask her for money.

You can't turn a "no" to a "yes" without a "maybe" in between.

I hear that whenever someone in the White House tells a lie, Nixon gets a royalty.

The house is a castle which the King cannot enter.

So Pa sold the little house. He sold the cow and calf. He made hickory bows and fastened them upright to the wagon box. Ma helped him stretch white canvas over them.

If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?

I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.

Spring is the usual period for house-cleaning and removing the dust and dirt which, notwithstanding all precautions, will accumulate during the winter months from dust, smoke, gas, etc.

A mountaineer’s house, before being his home and the home of his family, is the home of God and of guests.

Read no less than ½ hour a day or listen to audiobooks while in the car or cleaning the house. Biographies of great people taught me, as I said, that even eminent people fail but keep getting up.

Remember this: The house doesn't beat the player. It just gives him the opportunity to beat himself.

A wicked wife, a false friend, a saucy servant and living in a house with a serpent in it are nothing but death.

Every minute we were together, I felt like I was wandering in the dark through a strange house, groping for a light switch. And then, whenever I found one and turned it on, the bulb was dead.

as a child i suppose i was not quite normal. my happiest times were when i was left alone in the house on a saturday.

The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor, you may have only a ramshackle house, you may have lost your job, but that song gives you hope.

It looks different when you're sober; I thought I had twice as much furniture.

I still remember, as a kid, tying a yellow ribbon around a tree in front of my house during the 444 days that Iran held 52 Americans hostage. Iran is not a place we should be doing business with.

When all else fails, cleaning house is the perfect antidote to most of life's ills.

Some say the economy means that you have to persuade people to invest in clothes - to buy less things but more expensive things. I disagree - invest in jewelry, or a house, maybe, but not in fashion.

Voodoo doll belong in the house of voodoo.

If you want to be equal with me, you can get your own Rolls-Royce, your own house and your own million dollars.

The White House is dismissing these town hall fireworks as AstroTurf movements which means it's the opposite of a true grass roots movement.

I believe in love, but I don't sit around waiting for it. I buy houses.

If God can't get the attention of the church house, He's certainly not going to stop by the White House.

It's the anarchy of poverty delights me, the old yellow wooden house indented among the new brick tenements

I actually only started listening to house music around the time I started making it. I got hooked both to making music and to house music.

I was playing birthday parties. House-rent parties where they used to sell whisky during prohibition.

Being happy with less is what makes a great human being, not a big house with marble floors, or everyone knowing who you are.

Having never left the house you are looking for the way home

If you would not step into the harlot's house, do not go by the harlot's door.

Having five children in six years is the best training in the world for Speaker of the House.

Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints.

[To the critic who wrote a negative review:] I am sitting in the smallest room of the house. Your review is before me. Soon it will be behind me.

I am always going to have problems with the paparazzi. I have had two men outside my house for the last two years, which is frightening at times, but that is my life unfortunately.

In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.

A man's house is his castle.

Think long and hard about how you proceed, Nico di Angelo. You cannot lie to Cupid. If you let your anger rule you... well, your fate will be even sadder then mine.

Remember: People who live in glass houses can see you masturbating in their bushes.