Adler Polly 1900-1962

(referring to a brothel)

A House is not a Home.

Anonymous

A mother is a person who if she is not there when you get home from school you wouldn't know how to get your dinner, and you wouldn't feel like eating it anyway.

Arnold Matthew 1822-1888

Essays in Criticism

[Oxford] whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Ages... Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!

Arnold Samuel J. 1774-1852

The Death of Nelson

For England, home and beauty.

Austen Jane 1775-1817

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

Berlin Irving 1888-1989

‘God Bless America'
God bless America,
Land that I love,
Stand beside her and guide her
Thru the night with a light from above.
From the mountains to the prairies,
To the oceans white with foam,
God bless America,
My home sweet home.

Beudoin Patricia C.

The thoughest thing about being a housewife is you have no place to stay home from.

Bossidy John Collins 1860-1928

(at Holy Cross College)

And this is good old Boston,
The home of the bean and the cod,
Where the Lowells talk to the Cabots
And the Cabots talk only to God.

Cosby Bill

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.

Cowper William 1731-1800

How much a dunce that has been sent to roam
Excels a dunce that has been kept at home!

Dickinson Emily 1830-1886

Where thou art, that, is Home.

Douglas Norman 1868-1952

South Wind

Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.

Ford Lena Guilbert 1870-1916

Till the Boys Come Home!
Keep the Home-fires burning,
While your hearts are yearning,
Though your lads are far away
They dream of Home.
There's a silver lining
Through the dark cloud shining;
Turn the dark cloud inside out,
Till the boys come Home.

Frost David

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.

Frost Robert 1874-1963

‘The Death of the Hired Man'

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

Goldsmith Oliver 1730-1774

The Traveller

Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam,
His first, best country ever is, at home.

Greer Germaine

Most women still need a room of their own and the only way to find it may be outside their own home.

Grossmith George and Weedon 1847-1912

The Diary of a Nobody

What's the good of a home if you are never in it?

Hillebrand Fred

Home James, and don't spare the horses.

Hitchcock Alfred 1899-1980

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

Hubbard Kin 1868-1930

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

Hubbard Kin 1868-1930

Kindness goes a long way lots o' times when it ought t' stay at home.

Joyce James 1882-1941

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

I will not serve that in which I no longer believe whether it call itself my home, my fatherland or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use, silence, exile, and cunning.

Kerr Jean

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.

Moore George 1852-1933

The Brook Kerith

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

Morgenstern Christian

Home is not where you live but where they understand you.

Newman John Henry, Cardinal 1801-1890

‘Lead, kindly Light'

Lead, kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom,
Lead thou me on;
The night is dark, and I am far from home.

Nietzsche Friedrich 1844-1900

Ecce Homo

As an artist, a man has no home in Europe save in Paris.

Olsen Ken

(whilist President of Digital Equipment Corp 1977)

There is no reason why anyone would want to have a computer in their home.

Parker Martin 1600-1656

‘The Valiant Sailors'

You gentlemen of England
Who live at home at ease,
How little do you think
On the dangers of the seas.

Payne J.H. 1791-1852

Clari, or, The Maid of Milan ‘Home, Sweet Home'

Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam,
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.

Pope Alexander 1688-1744

‘Epigram: You beat your pate'

You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come:
Knock as you please, there's nobody at home.

Pound Ezra 1885-1972

Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
Died some, pro patria,
non ‘dulce' non ‘et decor' ...
walked eye-deep in hell
believing in old men's lies, the unbelieving
came home, home to a lie.

Pym Barbara 1913-1980

Jane and Prudence

It is better taste somehow that a man should be unfaithful to his wife away from home.

Reagan Ronald

Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o'clock.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

As You Like It

When I was at home, I was in a better place; but travellers must be content.

Smith James and Horace 1775-1839 and 1779-1849

Rejected Addresses ‘Cui Bono?'

Sated with home, of wife, of children tired.
The restless soul is driven abroad to roam;
Sated abroad, all senn and all admired,
The restless soul is driven to ramble home.

Tusser Thomas c.1524-1580