Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

home

A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.

Going home must be like going to render an account.

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at.

My home has always been show business.

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.

The show doesn't drive home a lesson, but it can open up people's minds enough for them to see how stupid every kind of prejudice can be.

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

Where thou art, that is home.

You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.

God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.

Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.

Home is where the heart is.

Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.

I can't imagine dating a boy, meeting him only outside the home. What's a home and family for if it's not the center of one's life?

I never worry about being driven to drink I just worry about being driven home.

If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.

Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home.

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people and then I go home alone.

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?

A man's house is his castle.

At home, you always have to be a politician when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

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.

I believe my woman shouldn't work outside the home.

I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.

My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.

My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.

The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.

A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside inside is more often his nursery.

At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrased in front of our friends.

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there.

Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.

The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.

Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.

The home is the chief school of human virtues.

Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.

Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.

Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

Philosophy is properly home-sickness the wish to be everywhere at home.

The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

To be an ideal guest, stay at home.

Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.

I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.

Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

I have always drawn strength from being close to home.

I left home because I was hungry.

I love cats because I enjoy my home and little by little, they become its visible soul.

I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.

Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.

Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad!

Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There's always something.

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.

I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows.

I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.

In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.

Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.

Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.

Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Home is where one starts from.

Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.

Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.

Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.

Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

Seek home for rest, for home is best.

The home should be the treasure chest of living.

The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is.

Home is the place we love best and grumble the most.

How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.

I ask myself: Would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm instead of shock treatments and medication?

I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.