House Quotes

I grew up in a very funny house.

Love is merely a madness,

and I tell you deserves as well a dark house

and a whip as madmen do.

I cannot possibly believe that

I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry,

inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed,

denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.

I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house,

that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.

Where there is righteousness in the heart,

there is harmony in the house;

when there is harmony in the house,

there is order in the nation;

when there is order in the nation,

there is peace in the world.

A man builds a fine house;

and now he has a master,

and a task for life: he is to furnish,

watch, show it,

and keep it in repair,

the rest of his days.

Every spirit makes its house,

and we can give a shrewd guess,

from the house to the inhabitant.

Every book is a quotation;

and every house is a quotation out of all forests,

and mines,

and stone quarries;

and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

I had three chairs

in my house;

one for solitude,

two for friendship,

three for society.

Where there is

righteousness in the heart,

there is harmony in the house;

when there is

harmony in the house,

there is order in the nation;

when there is

order in the nation,

there is peace in the world.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment,

a household of children,

if things go reasonably well,

certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

I do not expect the Union to be dissolved

I do not expect the house to fall

but I do expect it will cease to be divided.

It will become all one thing,

or all the other.

Only as far as the masters of the world

have called in nature to their aid,

can they reach the height of magnificence.

This is the meaning of their hanging

gardens, villas, houses, islands, parks, and preserves.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

I want you to act as if the house is on fire,

because it is.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another,

but let him work diligently and build one for himself,

thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe

from violence when built.