House Quotes

Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.

At the working man’s house, hunger looks in but dares not enter.

A little House well fill'd, a little Field well till'd, and a little Wife well will'd, are great Riches.

Build your house on the rock of learning; no one can take your education away from you.

The gambling supply house catalog is distinctly not the safest place to learn about cheating devices, beware of catalog men.

By the late 1980s people realized that houses did not always appreciate and that they could fluctuate like any other market commodity.

That soul-subduing sentiment, harshly called flirtation, which is the spell of a country house.

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

Fang can't stand to see trash & garbage lying around the house. He can't stand the competition.

Your husband is lazy if when he leaves the house, he finds out which way the wind is blowing and goes that direction.

I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has.

I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house.

White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues.

So, you know, I always say that I'm a Mexican, but if I had to be a citizen of anywhere else, I'd be a citizen of Manhattan. I feel very much a New Yorker.

But not like this: not with the house just an afterimage, and my mom a spirit, and my dad...recycled." "Carter Kane, Chapter 41

I was a huge Mike Tyson fan growing up; his fights were always on in my house.

I do not hope somebody breaks in. However, if they did, I pity them. I pity the fool that breaks into my house.

Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.

I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills.

You ever taste some damn chicken so horrible, that you wished the chicken would show up at your house and show your lady how to cook him?

If Thy dear home be fuller, Lord, For that a little emptier. My house on earth, what rich rewards. That guerdon were.

My first student film was Orientation, which was basically the set-up for Animal House. There are a couple of scenes that we later borrowed in some form.

Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.

'House' was such a special part of my life.

Earth, thou great footstool of our God, who reigns on high; thou fruitful source of all our raiment, life, and food; our house, our parent, and our nurse.

Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father's house into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining.

A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.

Since the new film has been out, I'm doing quite a lot but then in July I will start doing things at home. I have to fix the house up, see the grandchildren and such.

Never played a video game. Actually, I try to keep them out of my house.

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.

I'm a very bad citizen. I've never even voted.

I'm creating songs. I do it most of the time, in the car or in the house.

Forgetful of thy tomb thou buildest houses.

People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.

Get a life. A real life. Not a manic pursuit of the next promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger house.

When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model; And when we see the figure of the house, Then must we rate the cost of the erection.

Then is it sin to rush into the secret house of death. Ere death dare come to us?

Our kitchen is warm; it's who we are. And it has everything. Honestly, I could get rid of the rest of the house and just live in the kitchen.

Denial is pushing something out of your awareness. Anything you hide in the basement has a way of burrowing under the house and showing up on the front lawn.

You could start an argument in an empty house.

Communities of tract houses, plopped on a grid, represent a way of throwing historical forms around like bouillabaisse.

Rumi says, 'Meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in.' With awareness, know which emotions are in the house, and why they’re there, and never forget who you are when the guests leave.

Take care! Kingdoms are destroyed by bandits, houses by rats, and widows by suitors.

The most significant New York club for me was Paradise Garage, where they played house music. This was around '84 or '85.

All the Muslims are happy, and Godwilling this earthquake... will be felt right up to the White House.

My chastity's the jewel of our house, bequeathed down from many ancestors.

By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart of the American Dream.

I don't have anything that I treasure at all. They're just things. I tend to buy an awful lot of stuff, like clothes and things. But I wouldn't be bothered if my house burns down tomorrow.

If (a particular researcher) won't stop when you ask nicely, when you picket in front of his house, or when you burn his car, maybe he'll stop when you hit him over the head with a two-by-four.

You might be a redneck if your house doesn't have curtains, but your truck does.