You can’t appreciate home till you’ve left it, money till it’s spent, your wife until she’s joined a woman’s club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on a shanty of a consul in a foreign town.
Home Quotes
There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction. One has to go abroad in order to find the home one has lost.
The man who has a house everywhere has a home nowhere.
Home wasn’t built in a day.
To an open house in the evening, Home shall men come, To an older place than Eden, And a taller town than Rome.
Some keep the Sabbath going to Church – I keep it, staying at Home – With a bobolink for a Chorister – And an Orchard, for a Dome.
There’s a little gray house in a one-street town, And the door stands open, and the steps go down, And you prop up the window with a stick on the sill, And you carry spring water from the bottom of the hill; And the white star of Bethlehem grows in the yard; And I can’t […]
What is more agreeable than one’s home?
Except to heaven, she is nought; Except for angels, lone; Except to some wide-wandering bee, A flower superfluous blown; Except for winds, provincial; Except by butterflies, Unnoticed as a single dew That on the acre lies. The smallest housewife in the grass, Yet take her from the lawn, And somebody has lost the face That […]
There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
