If a man can cut such a head on his stone gate-post as shall draw and keep a crowd about it all day, by its beauty, good nature, and inscrutable meaning; – if a man can build a plain cottage with such symmetry, as to make all the fine palaces look cheap and vulgar; can […]
House Quotes
He is the appointer of his owne circumstance, and his house is his castle.
I am fond of paintings, furniture, tapestry, houses and flowers even vegetables and fruit-trees. I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
I do not want my house to be walled in on sides and windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible.
When one has finished building one’s house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way – before one began.
Frodo was now safe in the Last Homely House east of the Sea. That house was, as Bilbo had long ago reported, “a perfect house, whether you like food or sleep, or story-telling or singing, or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.” Merely to be there was a cure […]
This ole house is a-gettin’ shaky This ole house is a-gettin’ old This ole house lets in the rain This ole house lets in the cold On my knees I’m gettin’ chilly But I feel no fear nor pain ‘Cause I see an angel peekin’ Through a broken windowpane Ain’t a-gonna need this house no […]
Victory Mansions were old flats, built in 1930 or thereabouts, and were falling to pieces. The plaster flaked constantly from ceilings and walls, the pipes burst in every hard frost, the roof leaked whenever there was snow, the heating system was usually running at half steam when it was not closed down altogether from motives […]
When dad found out the house was full of termites, he got real mad. But I was glad, because now I wouldn’t have to go all the way to the woods to get termites for my termite farm.
One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one’s house. A man’s house is his castle; and whilst he is quiet, he is as well guarded as a prince in his castle.
