My house is my castle. [ Proverb ]
Two cats and one mouse,
Two wives in one house,
Two dogs at one bone,
Can never agree in one. [ Proverb ]
The house shows the owner. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Perseverance built a house. [ Tacquet ]
Half a house is half a hell. [ German Proverb ]
A man's house is his castle. [ Proverb ]
The back door robs the house. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
An old friend is a new house. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Better one house well filled,
Than two houses spilled. [ Proverb ]
Disease is a hot-house plant. [ Haller ]
The house is smiling with silver. [ Horace ]
The wife is the key of the house. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Sleep shall neither night nor day
Hang upon his pent-house lid. [ William Shakespeare ]
Some save-alls do well in a house. [ Proverb ]
A coalheaver's house is his castle.
There is a skeleton in every house. [ Proverb ]
The house appointed for all living. [ Bible ]
I've often wished that I had clear.
For life, six hundred pounds a year,
A handsome house to lodge a friend,
A river at my garden's end,
A terrace walk, and half a rood
Of land, set out to plant a wood. [ Swift ]
A good laugh is sunshine in a house. [ William M. Thackeray ]
To throw the house out of the window. [ Proverb ]
In a good house all is quickly ready. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A house and a woman suit excellently. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A little kitchen makes a large house. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
In a fiddler's house all are dancers. [ Proverb ]
Venus smiles not in a house of tears. [ William Shakespeare ]
In the house of a fiddler all fiddle. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
To bring an old house over one's head. [ Proverb ]
The master absent, and the house dead. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
All is soon ready in an orderly house. [ Proverb ]
After the house is finished, leave it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Dust, to its narrow house beneath!
Soul, to its place on high!
They that have seen thy look in death,
No more may fear to die. [ Mrs. Hemans ]
Two whores in a house will never agree. [ Proverb ]
Commend not your wife, wine, nor house. [ Proverb ]
A house ready made, but a wife to make. [ Proverb ]
In my Father's house are many mansions. [ Jesus ]
Justice pleaseth few in their own house. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Better an empty house than an ill tenant. [ Proverb ]
He will burn his house to warm his hands. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Sweetheart and honeybird, keeps no house. [ Proverb ]
Would you thatch your house with pancakes? [ Proverb ]
The chambers in the house of dreams
Are fed with so divine an air.
That Time's hoar wings grow young therein.
And they who walk there are most fair. [ Francis Thomson ]
This blustering can never untile my house. [ Proverb ]
The Raven's house is built with reeds, -
Sing woe, and alas is me!
And the Raven's couch is spread with weeds,
High on the hollow tree;
And the Raven himself, telling his beads
In penance for his past misdeeds.
Upon the top I see. [ Thos. Darcy McGee ]
Whom God loves his house is savoury to him. [ Proverb ]
To play at chess when the house is on fire. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Woe to that house where there is no chiding. [ Proverb ]
O, he's as tedious
As is a tired horse, a railing wife;
Worse than a smoky house; I had rather live
With cheese and garlic in a windmill, far,
Than feed on cates, and have him talk to me,
In any summer-house in Christendom. [ William Shakespeare ]
You take my house, when you do take the prop
That doth sustain my house; you take my life
When you do take the means whereby I live. [ William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice ]
If folly were grief, every house would weep. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Curiosity is ill manners in another's house. [ Proverb ]
Burn not your house to fright away the mice. [ Proverb ]
Give house-room to the best; 'tis never known
Verture and pleasure both to dwell in one. [ Herrick ]
He set my house afire only to roast his eggs. [ Proverb ]
God oft hath a great share in a little house. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Hell, their fit habitation, fraught with fire
Unquenchable, the house of woe and pain. [ Milton ]
Two fools in a house are too many by a couple. [ Proverb ]
A house well furnished makes a good housewife. [ Proverb ]
When we mean to build,
We first survey the plot, then draw the model;
And when we see the figure of the house,
Then must we rate the cost of the erection;
Which if we find outweighs ability.
What do we then, but draw anew the model
In fewer offices; or, at least, desist
To build at all? [ William Shakespeare ]
When the house is burnt down, you bring water. [ Proverb ]
Ye have a world of light,
When love in the loved rejoices;
But the blind man's home is the house of night.
And its beings are empty voices. [ Bulwer ]
There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple:
If the ill spirit have so fair a house,
Good things will strive to dwell with it. [ William Shakespeare ]
Then fell upon the house a sudden gloom,
A shadow on those features fair and thin;
And softly, from that hushed and darkened room,
Two angels issued, where but one went in. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
An old man in a house is a good sign in a house. [ Heb. Proverb ]
She will scold the devil out of a haunted house. [ Proverb ]
No house without mouse; no throne without thorn. [ Proverb ]
With equal foot (rich friend), impartial Fate
Knocks at the cottage and the palace gate;
Life's span forbids thee to extend thy cares
And stretch thy hopes beyond thy destined years:
Night soon will seize, and you must quickly go
To storied ghosts and Pluto's house below. [ Horace ]
Sworn to no master, of no sect am I;
As drives the storm, at any door I knock,
And house with Montaigne now, and now with Locke. [ Pope ]
A smoking chimney in a great house is a good sign. [ Proverb ]
Every one in his own house and God in all of them. [ Cervantes ]
The fool runs away while his house is burning down. [ Proverb ]
O very gloomy is the House of Woe,
Where tears are falling while the bell is knelling.
With all the dark solemnities which show
That Death is in the dwelling!
O, very, very dreary is the room
Where Love, domestic Love, no longer nestles.
But smitten by the common stroke of doom.
The corpse lies on the trestles! [ Hood ]
The ornament of a house is the friends who visit it. [ Emerson ]
When my house burns it is not good playing at chess. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The house is a fine house when good folks are within. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The soul pays soundly for the house-room in the body. [ Proverb ]
Fine dressing is a foul house swept before the doors. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The mouse knows well when the cat's out of the house. [ Proverb ]
That is the best gown that goes up and down the house. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Masters are mostly the greatest servants in the house. [ Proverb ]
Set not your house on fire to be revenged of the moon. [ Proverb ]
He that would be well needs not go from his own house. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A house ready built never sells for so much as it cost. [ Proverb ]
A man may love his house and yet not ride on the ridge. [ Proverb ]
The smallness of the kitchen makes the house the bigger. [ Proverb ]
Thou hast death in thy house, and dost bewail another's. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Where there is a mother in the house, matters speed well. [ A. Bronson Alcott ]
One may as soon break his neck as his fast at your house. [ Proverb ]
Mention not a halter in the house of him that was hanged. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Whose house is of glass must not throw stones at another. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
I never whisper'd a private affair
Within the hearing of cat or mouse,
No, not to myself in the closet alone,
But I heard it shouted at once from the top of the house;
Everything came to be known. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
None but cats and dogs are allowed to quarrel in my house. [ Proverb ]
When a mans house is on fire it is time to break off chess. [ Proverb ]
It is a bad house where the hen crows louder than the cock. [ Proverb ]
What the better is the house for a sluggard's rising early? [ Proverb ]
Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house. [ Thomas Brooks ]
A virtuous woman, though ugly, is the ornament of the house. [ Proverb ]
A house built by the way-side is either too high or too low. [ Proverb ]
There's little pleasure in the house When our gudeman's awa. [ W. J. Mickle ]
That dog barks more out of custom than of care of the house. [ Proverb ]
Fine dressing is usually a foul house swept before the door. [ Proverb ]
When you enter into a house leave the anger ever at the door. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
If madness were pain, you would hear outcries in every house. [ Proverb ]
To Truth's house there is a single door, which is Experience. [ Bayard Taylor ]
The air of paradise did fan the house, and angels officed all. [ William Shakespeare ]
A fair wife without a fortune is a fine house without furniture. [ Proverb ]
A fool knows more in his own house than a wise man in another's. [ Proverb ]
Better keep the devil at the door than turn him out of the house. [ Proverb ]
Every one can keep house better than her mother, till she trieth. [ Proverb ]
The smoke of one's own house is better than the fire at another's. [ Proverb ]
By the streets of "By and By" one arrives at the house of "Never." [ Cervantes ]
When the house of your neighbour is on fire, your own is in danger. [ Proverb ]
Learning is worse lodged in him, than Jove was in a thatched house. [ Proverb ]
The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face? [ La Fontaine ]
When the next house is on fire, it is high time to look to your own. [ Proverb ]
It is no good hen that cackles in your house, and lays in another's. [ Proverb ]
Where there is room in the heart, there is always room in the house. [ Moore ]
When I had thatched his house, he would have hurled me from the roof. [ Proverb ]
Your own property is concerned when your neighbor's house is on fire. [ Horace ]
He who sets one foot in a bawdy-house claps the other in an hospital. [ Proverb ]
The more women look in their glass the less they look to their house. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The good man of the house is the last that knows what is done at home. [ Proverb ]
My house, my house, though thou art small, thou art to me the Escurial. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
There is a fault in the house, but would you have it built without any. [ Proverb ]
The heart is the lord of the body, as a man is the lord of his own house. [ Kiu-o ]
Better one's House be too little one day, than too big all the year after. [ Proverb ]
Every spirit makes its house, but afterwards the house confines the spirit. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Choose not a house near an inn (viz., for noise) or in a corner (for filth). [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house. [ Shenstone ]
Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds soon choke up the unused path. [ Scandinavian proverb ]
The hall is the ornament of a house, (i.e. first impressions have great weight). [ Proverb ]
Why Mammon sits before a million hearths Where God is bolted out from every house. [ Bailey ]
As you treat your body, so your house, your domestics, your enemies, your friends.
Dress is a table of your contents. [ Lavater ]
Be more careful to keep the doors of your heart shut than the doors of your house. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
A wise man in his house should find a wife gentle and courteous, or no wife at all. [ Euripides ]
Rich honesty dwells like a miser, in a poor house, as your pearl in your foul oyster. [ William Shakespeare ]
He that goes to church with an ill intention, goes to God's house on the devil's errand. [ Proverb ]
Love is merely a madness, and .... deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do. [ William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act III. Sc. 2 ]
Happy is that house and blessed is that congregation where Martha still complains of Mary. [ S. Bern ]
A woman is to be from her house three times; when she is christened., married, and buried. [ Proverb ]
It is the treasure-house of the mind, wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved. [ Thomas Fuller ]
Silence and chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house. [ Euripides ]
Prejudice is a house-plant which is very apt to wilt if you take it out-of-doors among folks. [ H. W. Shaw ]
That soul-subduing sentiment, harshly called flirtation, which is the spell of a country house. [ Beaconsfield ]
Every spirit builds itself a house, and beyond its house a world, and beyond its world a heaven. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
That is not good language which all understand not He that burns his house warms himself for once. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth. [ Bible ]
Something like home, that is not home, is to be desired; it is to be found in the house of a friend. [ Sir W. Temple ]
Remember to think of your departed mother always as living, just away in another room of our Father's house. [ Babcock ]
Who can speak broader than he that has no house to put his head in? - Such may rail against great buildings. [ William Shakespeare ]
Little League baseball is a good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets and the kids out of the house. [ Yogi Berra ]
What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms his daring hands. [ Ovid ]
Let them take one foot in your house, and they will soon have taken four (give them an inch and they will take an ell). [ La Fontaine ]
A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free. [ Abraham Lincoln ]
Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid. [ Mme. Necker ]
There is hardly a person in the House of Commons worth painting, though many of them would be better for a little whitewashing. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
Man is an eternal mystery, even to himself. His own person is a house which he never enters, and of which he studies but the outside. [ E. Souvestre ]
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. [ Varro ]
In an audience of rough people a generous sentiment always brings down the house. In the tumult of war both sides applaud an heroic deed. [ T. W. Higginson ]
Little joys refresh us constantly, like house-bread, and never bring disgust; and great ones, like sugar-bread, briefly, and then satiety. [ Richter ]
Happy is it to place a daughter; yet it pains a father's heart when he delivers to another's house a child, the object of his tender care. [ Euripides ]
Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is next to beauty, and a very high art. [ Thoreau ]
New or Novel? New and novel are sometimes used indiscriminately. New is opposed to old, novel to known; as, a new house, a novel invention. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]
Books are the windows through which the soul looks out; a house without books is like a room without windows. It is a man's duty to have books. [ H. W. Beecher ]
A babe in a 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. [ Tupper ]
The lightsome countenance of a friend giveth such an inward decking to the house where it iodgeth, as proudest palaces have cause to envy the gilding. [ Sir Philip Sidney ]
They learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also, and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not. [ Bible ]
In all societies it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest. In the grand theater of human life a box ticket takes you through the house. [ Colton ]
The law of perseverance is among the deepest in man; by nature he hates change; seldom will he quit his old house till it has actually fallen about his ears. [ Carlyle ]
The stranger who turneth away from a house with disappointed hopes leaveth there his own offences, and departeth, taking with him all the good actions of the owner. [ Hitopadesa ]
I have all reverence for principles which grow out of sentiments; but as to sentiments which grow out of principles, you shall scarcely build a house of cards thereon. [ Jacobi ]
Eternity is the divine treasure-house and hope is the window, by means of which mortals are permitted to see, as through a glass darkly, the things which God is preparing. [ Mountford ]
Like one who draws the model of a house beyond his power to build it, who, half through, gives o'er, and leaves his part-created cost a naked subject to the weeping clouds. [ William Shakespeare ]
In designing a house and gardens, it is happy when there is an opportunity of maintaining a subordination of parts; the house so luckily placed as to exhibit a view of the whole design. [ Shenstone ]
If we were to live here always, with no other care than how to feed, clothe, and house ourselves, life would be a very sorry business. It is immeasurably heightened by the solemnity of death. [ Alexander Smith ]
Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father's house into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining. [ Adam Clarke ]
The same conditions should be made in marriage that are made in the case of houses that one rents for a term of three, six, or nine years, with the privilege of becoming the purchaser if the house suits. [ Hegesippe Moreau ]
The most heaven-like spots I have ever visited have been certain rooms in which Christ's disciples were awaiting the summons of death. So far from being a house of mourning,
I have often found such a house to be a vestibule of glory. [ T. L. Cuyler ]
He said - and his observation was just - that a man on whom heaven hath bestowed a beautiful wife should be as cautious of the men he brings home to his house as careful of observing the female friends with whom his spouse converses abroad. [ Cervantes ]
Christ and His cross are not separable in this life, howbeit Christ and His cross part at heaven's door, for there is no house-room for crosses in heaven. One tear, one sigh, one sad heart, one fear, one loss, one thought of trouble cannot find lodging there. [ Rutherford ]
That fine part of our construction, the eye, seems as much the receptacle and seat of our passions as the mind itself; and at least it is the outward portal to introduce them to the house within, or rather the common thoroughfare to let our affections pass in and out. [ Addison ]
The idea that a baby doesn't amount to anything! Why, one baby is just a house and a front yard full by itself. One baby can, furnish more business than you and your whole Interior Department can attend to. He is enterprising, irrepressible, brimful of lawless activities. [ Mark Twain, The Babies ]
Own or Confess? The verb to own means to possess, but it has borrowed the additional and objectionable meaning of to confess, to acknowledge; as, He owned his crime.
A man owns a house, but confesses a larceny, or a murder, neither of which offenses is hardly susceptible of ownership. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]
Today I accidentally stepped on a snail on the sidewalk in front of our house. And I thought, I too am like that snail. I build a defensive wall around myself, a 'shell' if you will. But my shell isn't made out of a hard protective substance. Mine is made out of tinfoil and paper bags. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
A prolific source of obscurity is ambiguous arrangement. A member of the Savage Club, so runs the story, was one day standing on the steps of the club house. A messenger stopped and inquired: Does a gentleman belong to your club with one eye named Walker?
I don't know,
was the answer, what was the name of his other eye?
[ Sir J. F. Stephen, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]
What delight will it afford to renew the sweet counsel we have taken together, to recount the toils, the combats, and the labor of the way, and to approach, not the house, but the throne of God, in company, in order to join in the symphonies of heavenly voices, and lose ourselves amidst the splendor and fruitions of the beatific vision. [ Robert Hall ]
Chance never writ a legible book; chance never built a fair house; chance never drew a neat picture; it never did any of these things, nor ever will; nor can it be without absurdity supposed able to do them; which yet are works very gross and rude, very easy and feasible, as it were, in comparison to the production of a flower or a tree. [ Barrow ]
I see the spectacle of morning from the hilltop over against my house, from daybreak to sunrise, with emotions which an angel might share. The long slender bars of cloud float like fishes in the sea of crimson light. From the earth, as a shore, I look out into that silent sea. I seem to partake its rapid transformations; the active enchantment reaches my dust, and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind. [ Emerson ]
Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms accepted by the sense of all, can reach; the contradictors and railers at public and private tables, who are like terriers, who conceive it the duty of a dog of honor to growl at any passer-by, and do the honors of the house by barking him out of sight. [ Emerson ]
Mr. Johnson had never, by his own account, been a close student, and used to advise young people never to be without a book in their pocket, to be read at bye-times, when they had nothing else to do. It has been by that means,
said he to a boy at our house one day, that all my knowledge has been gained, except what I have picked up by running about the world with my wits ready to observe, and my tongue ready to talk.
[ Mrs. Piozzi ]
How fitting to have every day, in a vase of water on your table, the wild flowers of the season which are just blossoming. Can any house be said to be furnished without them? Shall we be so forward to pluck the fruits of Nature and neglect her flowers? These are surely her finest influences. So may the season suggest the thoughts it is fitted to suggest. Let me know what pictures Nature is painting, what poetry she is writing, what ode composing now. [ Thoreau ]
You can throw yourselves away. You can become of no use in the universe except for a warning. You can lose your souls. Oh, what a loss is that! The perversion and degradation of every high and immortal power for an eternity! And shall this be true of any one of you? Will you be lost when One has come from heaven, traveling in the greatness of His strength, and with garments dyed in blood, on purpose to guide you home - home to a Father's house - to an eternal home? [ Mark Hopkins ]
The receipt to make a speaker, and an applauded one too, is short and easy. Take commonsense quantum sufficit (in sufficient quantity); add a little application to the rules and orders of the House of Commons, throw obvious thoughts in a new light, and make up the whole with a large quantity of purity, correctness and elegancy of style. Take it for granted that by far the greatest part of mankind neither analyze nor search to the bottom; they are incapable of penetrating deeper than the surface. [ Chesterfield ]
Today it is all of sixty years since I began to smoke the limit. I have never bought cigars with life-belts around them. I early found that those were too expensive for me: I have always bought cheap cigars - reasonably cheap, at any rate. Sixty years ago they cost me four dollars a barrel, but my taste has improved, latterly, and I pay seven, now. Six or seven. Seven, I think. Yes; it's seven. But that includes the barrel. I often have smoking-parties at my house; but the people that come have always just taken the pledge. I wonder why that is? [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]
Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. I wasn't myself, I started poor. I hadn't a single moral. There is hardly a man in this house that is poorer than I was then. Yes, I started like that - the world before me, not a moral in the slot. Not even an insurance moral. I can remember the first one I ever got. I can remember the landscape, the weather, the - I can remember how everything looked. It was an old moral, an old second-hand moral, all out of repair, and didn't fit, anyway. But if you are careful with a thing like that, and keep it in a dry place, and save it for processions, and Chautauquas, and World's Fairs, and so on, and disinfect it now and then, and give it a fresh coat of whitewash once in a while, you will be surprised to see how well she will last and how long she will keep sweet, or at least inoffensive. When I got that mouldy old moral, she had stopped growing, because she hadn't any exercise; but I worked her hard, I worked her Sundays and all. Under this cultivation she waxed in might and stature beyond belief, and served me well and was my pride and joy for sixty-three years; then she got to associating with insurance presidents, and lost flesh and character, and was a sorrow to look at and no longer competent for business. She was a great loss to me. Yet not all loss. I sold her - ah, pathetic skeleton, as she was - I sold her to Leopold, the pirate King of Belgium; he sold her to our Metropolitan Museum, and it was very glad to get her, for without a rag on, she stands 57 feet long and 16 feet high, and they think she's a brontosaur. Well, she looks it. They believe it will take nineteen geological periods to breed her match. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]