House Quotes

Riches should be admitted into our houses, but not into our hearts; we may take them into our possession, but not into our affections.

Vigilantly guard your mind against erroneous and destructive thought as you would guard your house against burglars and assassins.

The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brain and in your hands, wherever you go.

Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name transmitted to posterity with disgrace and infamy?

We have to find a new balance; otherwise even the moral edifice of the church is likely to fall like a house of cards, losing the freshness and fragrance of the Gospel.

If I am identified with my relationship, with my house, or with my money, I am doomed to suffer.

Let me go to the house of the Father.

If a house is priced appropriately, make a bid 10 percent below that amount.

Traditional dinosaur theory is full of short circuits. Like the antiquated wiring in an old house, the details sputter and burn out when specific parts are tested.

The White House is now essentially a TV performance.

Since I'm the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it's understandable that people are saying, you know, 'What have you done?'

It took me a long time to get used to the reality that my grandmother had passed away. Wherever I was, in the house, in the garden, out on the fields, her face always appeared so clearly to me.

I'm floored that the House leadership would turn its back on job creation for Mississippians.

The United States Congress, like a lot of rich people, lives in two houses.

I grew up in a house with very few books.

The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.

I'm the minority in my house sometimes. My wife is Swedish, and we go to Sweden and everyone is rattling off in Swedish. It's like, 'OK, I can just read a book.'

I tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead not guilty to selling out. But I plead it from a bigger house than I used to live in.

The first comedy screenplay that I wrote was Animal House and I always thought I could and should be a director but no one was about to give me that opportunity on Animal House.

A house can have integrity, just like a person.

In a real estate man's eye, the most expensive part of the city is where he has a house to sell

The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House.

A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.

Originality in literature is only a new coat of paint on an old house.

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.

O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.

If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.

As in some Irish houses, where things are so-so, One gammon of bacon hangs up for a show; But, for eating a rasher of what they take pride in, They'd as soon think of eating the pan it is fried in.

I love this city. If I am elected, I'll move the White House to San Francisco. Everybody's so friendly.

I still love church. My favorite church service is T.D. Jakes at the Potter's House. I don't think there is a better preacher in the country. His ability to interpret scripture is like no other.

One pretty woman means fun at the dance. Two pretty women means trouble in the house. Three pretty women means run at the hills.

I have a lot of mirrors around my house, not because I like to look at myself, but because I like the light and perspective they bring to a room.

I do like nice things; we do live in a great house, but I don't choose my friends by how much money they have or what labels they're wearing.

Oh my only friend, my best beloved, the gates are open in my house—do not pass by like a dream.

We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.

I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.

The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be . . .

If people suspect their Cattle Bewitched, if they be great Cattle, make the twelfth house their ascendant, and the eleventh their twelfth house, and vary your Rules with Judgment.

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

A husband is very much like a house or a horse.

The house that is built upon the sand will crumble at the first sign of a windstorm.

My knowledge of the universe is that if I write stupid jokes, the universe gives me a really nice house and great meals. I do not believe mankind will ever develop a formula to explain this.

The plants are principally kept in large pots arranged in rows along the sides of narrow paved walks, with the houses of the gardeners at the entrance through which the visitors pass to the gardens.

I can't find my car keys in the morning. Trying to get out of my house is a nightmare. 'Where's my wallet? Where are my keys? I have to go find a missing person.'

I lived in Georgetown in the late 70s about four houses down from the steps.

All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.

When you're in my house you shall do as I do and believe who I believe in. So Bart butter your bacon.

An house is of a double nature, viz., one, wherein it is a way and means of expence, the other as it is an instrument and tool of gain.

My brother Mark still lives in the house we grew up in.

The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house.