Home Quotes - page 17

It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early. (Marcel Achard)
The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest. View quote
Thomas Moore
And hie him home, at evening's close, To sweet repast and calm repose. View quote
Thomas Gray
While fancy, like the finger of a clock, Runs the great circuit, and is still at home. View quote
William Cowper
Six hours a day I lived under school discipline in active intercourse with people none of whom were known to those at home, and the other hours of the twenty-four I spent at home, or with relatives of the people at home, none of whom were known to anybody at school. View quote
Georg Brandes
I was at home then in the world of figures, but not in that of values. View quote
Georg Brandes
Americans need bullshit the way koala bears need eucalyptus leaves. They've become totally addicted to it. They get so much of it back home that they can't survive without it. View quote
Michael Moorcock
Dry bread at home is better then rost meate abroad. View quote
George Herbert
322. Although the sun shine, leave not thy cloake at home. View quote
George Herbert
But do not ask me where I am going, As I travel in this limitless world, Where every step I take is my home. View quote
Dōgen
Curse away! And let me tell thee, Beauseant, a wise proverb The Arabs have,-"Curses are like young chickens, And still come home to roost!" (Edward Bulwer-Lytton)
What captivity has been to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish. For us, the romance of our native land begins only after we have left home; it is really only with other people that we become Irishmen. View quote
Peter Ackroyd
It's all a part of this world where we're all kind of mixing a lot, and... in that way we're all a bit confused about who we are, where we belong, where's home, and ... who is important to us... View quote
Kalki Koechlin
Adieu! 'tis love's last greeting, The parting hour is come! And fast thy soul is fleeting To seek its starry home. View quote
Pierre-Jean de Béranger
In addition, Islam stressed on purifying the body, clothes and everything that is related to man's private life in his land and home, from the unclean impurity. View quote
Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah
[Ed Grimley] lives in a retirement home in New Jersey. It's called the Retirement Home in New Jersey for Characters Who Were Interesting in the '80s for About an Hour. He's there with the Whiners, Gumby and Jon Lovitz's 'That's the ticket' guy. View quote
Martin Short
Sometimes I get the feeling that there are orgies going on all over New York City, and somebody says, `Let's call Desmond,' and somebody else says,'Why bother? He's probably home reading the Encyclopedia Britannica. View quote
Paul Desmond
It was foreordained that I should go alone to Umvelos', and in the promptings of my own infallible heart I believed I saw the workings of Omnipotence. Such is our moral arrogance, and yet without such a belief I think that mankind would have ever been content to bide sluggishly at home. View quote
John Buchan
History teaches us these lessons for the interveners: leave your prejudices at home, keep your ambitions low, have enough resources to do the job, do not lose the golden hour, make security your first priority, involve the neighbours. View quote
Paddy Ashdown
I was going home two hours ago, but was met by Mr. Griffith, who has kept me ever since. I will come within a pint of wine. View quote
Richard Steele
They are born, put in a box; they go home to live in a box; they study by ticking boxes; they go to what is called "work” in a box, where they sit in their cubicle box; they drive to the grocery store in a box to buy food in a box; they talk about thinking "outside the box”; and when they die they are put in a box. (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
The successful sale of British Telecom...reveals a vast and untapped yearning among ordinary people for a direct stake in the ownership of British enterprise. Investment in shares has begun to take its place, with ownership of a home and either a bank or building society deposit, as a way for ordinary people to participate in enterprise and wealth creation. We are seeing the birth of people's capitalism. View quote
Nigel Lawson
Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense. View quote
Amelia Earhart
I have something to say about the difference between American and European cities, but I forgot what it was. I have it written down at home somewhere. View quote
David Byrne
I am looking forward very much to getting back to Cambridge, and being able to say what I think and not to mean what I say: two things which at home are impossible. Cambridge is one of the few places where one can talk unlimited nonsense and generalities without anyone pulling one up or confronting one with them when one says just the opposite the next day. View quote
Bertrand Russell