House Quotes - page 3

The ego is not master in its own house. (Sigmund Freud)
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone. View quote
John F. Kennedy
I was very, very sick when I was growing up in Russia. The ambulance constantly came to our house. I had horrible asthma that is easily treated in America, but they didn't even have inhalers back in Russia. View quote
Gary Shteyngart
My dream is to have a beautiful old house in Monaco. View quote
Eva Herzigova
I am not afraid of much. I kill all the spiders in my house, and I'm planning to go skydiving. I am into girl power, and I'm very self-sufficient. View quote
Elizabeth Banks
A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless. View quote
May Sarton
The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house. View quote
William Graham Sumner
Men have still not realized that letting women do so much of the work for so little reward makes a man in the house an expensive luxury rather than a necessity. View quote
Germaine Greer
The White House is the finest prison in the world. View quote
Harry S. Truman
I pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof. View quote
John Adams
Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital. (Thomas Jefferson)
Sir, if you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed. View quote
James Buchanan
A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men. View quote
Martin Farquhar Tupper
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house. View quote
George Carlin
A good laugh is sunshine in the house. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
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. View quote
Robert Frost
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 . . . View quote
Henry James
A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from town, have built a house, and am cultivating a garden. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
She bent over me again. Blood began to move around in me, like a prospective tenant looking over a house. View quote
Raymond Chandler
Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. (William Morris)
Whenever you wash dishes, cook, or clean, if you make no sound, this is smartness itself. A person who enters a house and makes a lot of noise is revealing a lack of spirituality; even cats and dogs do not make unnecessary sounds, and man as he naturally is does not make any either. View quote
Michio Kushi
Our house is burning and we look elsewhere. Nature mutilated, overexploited is not able to recover and we refuse to admit it. From North to South, it suffers from ill-development, and we are indifferent. Earth and humanity are in great peril and we are accountable. View quote
Jacques Chirac
I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land. View quote
Jon Stewart
When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you. View quote
Nora Ephron