Furniture Quotes

No furniture is so charming as books. (Sydney Smith)
How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture. View quote
Wallace Stevens
No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation. View quote
Fran Lebowitz
The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes. View quote
Dave Barry
I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it. View quote
Arthur Conan Doyle
A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world. View quote
Jane Austen
Item, I give unto my wife my second best bed, with the furniture. View quote
William Shakespeare
... if they [your children] write their names in the dust on the furniture, don't let them put the year. View quote
Phyllis Diller
His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs. View quote
Laura Hillenbrand
Cats regard people as warm-blooded furniture. (Jacquelyn Mitchard)
In my early years, my father was away as a soldier in the war. When he came back, work was very difficult to come by. Even though he was a highly skilled man, a maker of furniture, the payment for that work was very poor. View quote
Trevor Nunn
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
Shin a device for finding furniture in the dark. View quote
Steven Wright
I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. View quote
Arthur Conan Doyle
Who has not found the heaven below Will fail of it above. Gods residence is next to mine His furniture is love. View quote
Emily Dickinson
If the house is to be demolished tomorrow anyhow, people seem to feel, we may as well burn the furniture today. None of our problems are insoluble...But it seems clear that to prevail we humans will have to act with a smartness and selflessness that has so far eluded us during our long and tangled history. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
Know your lines and don't bump into the furniture. View quote
Spencer Tracy
So if you're a robot and you're living on this planet, you can do things that you can't do in real life - things that you wished you could do: like fly; like have a car that flies; like have furniture that is alive. View quote
William Joyce
If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies. View quote
Albert Einstein
I tried to like it. For me, it was like being smacked around the head by a piece of IKEA furniture: it hurts, but you've got to admire the workmanship. (Bill Bailey)
And I like the idea of change. Because I don't see why we should hang a painting on the wall and then just not think of it anymore because it's there like a piece of furniture. View quote
Minoru Yamasaki
Just because I'm Native American doesn't mean I can track furniture through the wilderness.” She deepened her voice: "‘Yes, kemosabe. A three-legged table passed this way an hour ago.' Heck, I don't know. View quote
Rick Riordan
This is Buford,” Leo announced. "You name your furniture?” Frank asked. View quote
Rick Riordan
I was living in a large apartment with no furniture, just a typewriter, and because I had nothing else to do with my time, it made me take my writing seriously. View quote
Simon Van Booy