House Quotes

This is the way God would do it if He only had money. (describing Moss Hart’s home)

I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures.

Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.

God bless the master of this house, And all who sleep therein! And guard the fens from pirate folk, And keep us from all sin, To walk in honesty, good sirs, Of thought and deed and word! Which shall befriend our latter end… And who shall judge the Lord?

Once there was a house with the ceiling on the floor. Once there was a house with a window in the door, And in the house there lived a dog who was a cat, Who wore a kind of coat that looked just like a hat.

My precept to all who build is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner.

Our law calleth a man’s house, his castle, meaning that he may defend himself therein.

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

The house of every one is to him as his castle and his fortress, as well as for his defense against injury and violence, as for his repose. For a man’s house is his castle.

A house of which one knew every room wasn’t worth living in.