If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
House Quotes
A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.
House, n. A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus and microbe.
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.
We fortify in paper and in figures, Using the names of men instead of men, Like one that draws the model of an house Beyond his power to build. (Henry IV)
Houseless, adj. Having paid all taxes on household goods.
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?
