house quotes

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.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

I’m more at home with my log cabins than I am in my house in Cherry Hill.

What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?

If there’s a pregnancy rumor, people will find out it’s not true when you wind up not being pregnant, like nine months from now, and if there’s a house rumor, they’ll find out it’s not true when you are actively not ever spotted at that house.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

I have a nice office. I have a nice house… So I’m not denying myself some great things. I just don’t happen to have expensive hobbies.

One aged man – one man – can’t fill a house.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that’s just not what the founders intended.

Since I’m the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it’s understandable that people are saying, you know, ‚What have you done?‘

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.

Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can’t comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there’s no life and love inside.

You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do, especially in Philadelphia in 1787, four months, they argued about what a House should be, what a Senate should be, the power of the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery.

I’ve lived in a big showplace house, and I never want to live again in a house that overshadows me.

We just bought this house. It’s too big. It’s like 400,000 square feet, or something. We got an indoor lake and ski slope in the house! It’s just too big.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.