Home Quotes
Solo homers usually come with no one on base.Ralph Kine
A home without books is a body without soul.Marcus Tullius Cicero
Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.Casey Stengel
Home - Keeping youth have ever homely wits.William Shakespeare, "The Two Gentlemen of Verona", Act 1 scene 1
True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.John Hay
True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.John Hay, Distichs, latter 19th century
For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavouring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.George Orwell
A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.Kahlil Gibran
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.Sir Winston Churchill
Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all - Ight drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.John le Carre, "The Chancellor Who Agreed To Play Spy, in The New York Times, May 8, 1974
A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.Don Frase
I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.Alan Bleasdale
Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. What kind of man would live where there is no daring And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying in adventure Is there a better way to die.Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
Teach children to be polite and courteous in the home, and, when he grows up, he will never be able to edge his car onto a freeway.Unknown
In words as fashions the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic if too new or oldBe not the first by whome the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.Alexander Pope
Arguments are like fire - Arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.Samuel Butle
We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home.Australian Aboriginal Prove
I knew from the start if I left a woman I really loved - - The Great Society - - In order to fight that bitch of a war in Vietnam then I would lose everything at home. My hopes my dreams.Lyndon B. Johnson
A home is not a mere transient shelter its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.H. L. Mencken
Charity begins at home.Terence, Andria
The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the wall of our own homes.Harold B. Lee
If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.Lawana Blackwell
The goal of every married couple, indeed, every Christian home, should be to make Christ the Head, the Counselor and the Guide.Paul Sadle
The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box their home, then travel the same road every day to another box their office.Faith Popcorn, The Popcorn Report, 1991
The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - - And let the air out of the tires.Dorothy Parke
An ambassador is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country; a news - writer is a man without virtue who lies at home for himself.Sir Henry Wotton, "Reliquae Wottonianae".
When a traveller returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath travelled altogether behind him.Francis Bacon, 1597 - 1625
There is a homely old adage which runs Speak softly and carry a big stick you will go far. If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.Theodore Roosevelt
May your home always be too small to hold all of your friends.Irish Blessing
The happiest moments of my life have a been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.Thomas Jefferson
Every child deserves a home and love. Period.Dave Thomas
There is a homely old adage which runs: Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far. If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.Theodore Roosevelt, Speech in Chicago, 3 Apr. 1903
It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.Mother Teresa
The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home reads only a page.Saint Augustine
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.Bill Cosby
My home is not a place, it is people.Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
Death is a friend of ours and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.Francis Bacon
Somehow he Tim gets thoughtful sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant for them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.Charles Dickens
