Adler Polly 1900-1962
(referring to a brothel)
A House is not a Home.
The Bible (Authorized Version)
New Testament: St John ch.14 v.2
In my Father's house are many mansions ... I go to prepare a place for you.
The Bible (Authorized Version)
New Testament: St Mark ch.3 v.25
If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
The Bible (Authorized Version)
Old Testament: Proverbs ch.24 v.3
Through wisdom a house is built and through understanding it is established.
The Book of Common Prayer
Psalm 122 v.1
I was glad when they said unto me: We will go into the house of the Lord.
Coke Sir Edward 1552-1634
Institutes of Laws of England
For a man's house is his castle.
Franklin Benjamin 1706-1790
Ne'er take a wife till though hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
Gilbert W.S. 1836-1911
Iolanthe
When in that House MPs divide,
If they've a brain and cerebellum too,
They have to leave that brain outside,
And vote just as their leaders tell'em to.
Gilbert W.S. 1836-1911
Iolanthe
The House of Peers, throughout the war,
Did nothing in particular,
And did it very well.
Graham D. M. 1911-
(motion for debate at Oxford Union)
That this House will in no circumstances fight for its King and Country.
Jerome Jerome K.1859-1927
They and I
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.
Larkin Philip 1922-1985
‘Church Going'
A serious house on serious earth it is,
In whose blent air all our compulsions meet,
Are recognized, and robed as destinies.
Le Corbusier 1887-1965
A house is a machine for living in.
Lenthall William 1591-1662
(while Speaker of the House of Commons, to Charles I)
I have neither eye to see, nor tongue to speak here, but as the house is pleased to direct me.
Lincoln Abraham 1809-1865
„A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.
MacDonald Sir John A. 1815-1891
A new Member requires the experience of his first session in the House to teach him how to hang up his overcoat and take his seat in a manner befitting a gentleman.
Moore Marianne 1887-1972
‘Silence'
Nor was he insincere in saying, ‘Make my house your inn'.
Inns are not residences.
More Sir Thomas 1478-1535
Is not this house [the Tower of London] as nigh heaven as my own?
Morris Charles 1745-1838
‘Country and Town'
But a house is much more to my mind than a tree,
And for groves, O! a good grove of chimneys for me.
Poincaré Henri 1854-1912
Science and Hypothesis
Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.
Proust Marcel 1871-1922
Until I saw Chardin's painting, I never realized how muchbeauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the half-cleared table, in the corner of a tablecloth left awry, in the knife beside the empty oyster shell.
Proverbs and Sayings
Russian
Don't buy the house; buy the neighbourhood.
Proverbs and Sayings
Spanish
Woe to the house where the hen crows and the rooster keeps still.
Sayers Dorothy L. 1893-1957
Creed or Chaos?
A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, and such a society is a house built upon sand.
Swift Jonathan 1667-1745
The Drapier's Letters
I have heard of a man who had a mind to sell his house, and therefore carried a piece of brick in his pocket, which he shewed as a pattern to
encourage purchasers.
Tennyson Alfred Lord 1809-1892
In Memoriam
Dark house, by which once more I stand
Here in the long unlovely street.
West Mae 1892-1980
in Belle of the Nineties
"A man in the house is worth two in the street."
Wright Frank Lloyd 1867-1959
No house should ever be on a hill, or on anything. It should be of the hill. Hill and house should live together, each the happier for the other.