House Quotes & Sayings
These famous house quotes and house sayings from our inspirational words of wisdom collection.Tomb: The house of indifference. [The Devil's Dictionary] - Ambrose Bierce
Barrack: A house in which soldiers enjoy a portion of that of which it is their business to deprive others. [The Devil's Dictionary] - Ambrose Bierce
Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true, Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne'er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov'd and loving me. - Abraham Cowley
He who overlooks a healthy spot for the site of his house is mad and ought to be handed over to the care of his relations and friends. [La., Qui salubrem locum negligit, mente est captus atque ad agnatos et gentiles deducendus] - Varro [Marcus Terentius Varro]
I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate. - John Adams
So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make sharper the contest between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent. - Henry George
Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation. - William Lloyd Garrison
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