Sayings about Houses
A house without a dog, a cat, or a little child is a house without joy or laughter. ~ Scottish Proverb
It is better to be a free man in a small house than a slave in a big one. ~ Norwegian Proverb
If each person would sweep before his own house, the city would soon be clean. ~ Polish Proverb
To a friend’s house the road is never long. ~ Danish Proverb
Your true enemy lives in your own house. ~ Guatemalan Proverb
A bear that dances in your neighbor’s house might soon dance in yours. ~ Macedonian Proverb The
It’s no time to play chess when the house is on fire. ~ Italian Proverb
Were everyone to sweep in front of his own house, every street would be clean. ~ Dutch Proverb
It’s a sad house where the hen crows louder than the rooster. ~ Scottish Proverb
If there is room in your heart there is room in your house. ~ Danish Proverb
In a small house God has His corner, in a big house He has to stand in the hall. ~ Swedish Proverb
A small tumbledown house is better than a communal palace. ~ Arabian Proverb
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come. ~ Japanese Proverbs
A house full of people is filled with different points of view. ~ New Zealand Proverb
Who lives in a quiet house has plenty. ~ New Zealander Proverb
The house with an old grandparent harbors a jewel. ~ Chinese Proverb
In every little house there is a little louse. ~ Polish Proverb
It is easier to demolish a house than to build one. ~ Irish Proverb
A house without a child is like a tomb. ~ Sanskrit Proverb
With a child in the house, all corners all full. ~ Yiddish Proverb
Choose your neighbors before you buy your house. ~ Nigerian Proverb
Who stands by the door of his house is not yet gone away. ~ Finnish Proverb
A small house can lodge a hundred friends. ~ Egyptian Proverbs
The laughter of a child is the light of a house. ~ African Proverb
I will do anything except bear the responsibility of guarding a house that has two doors. ~ Puerto Rican Proverb
Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it. ~ Indian Proverbs
The open house makes a good man of the thief. ~ Spanish Proverb
Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children make a home. ~ Irish Proverbs
The road to a friend’s house is never long. ~ Danish Proverb
Choose the neighbor before the house. ~ Syrian Proverb
As soon as a man leaves his house he has seven enemies. ~ Japanese Proverbs
Better to have one thousand enemies outside the house than to have one single enemy inside it. ~ Lebanese Proverb
If you are building a house and a nail breaks, do you stop building, or do you change the nail? ~ Rwandan Proverb
A small house is enough room for a thousand friends. ~ Syrian Proverbs
An empty purse and a new house make a man wise, but too late. ~ Portuguese Proverbs
If you build according to every man’s advice, you will have a crooked house. ~ Danish Proverbs
If there is light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, there will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, there will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world. ~ Chinese Proverb
It is not the fire in the fireplace which warms the house, but the couple who get along well. ~ Malagasy Proverbs
Better a bad wife than an empty house. ~ Ivorian Proverb
Don’t buy the house, buy the neighborhood. ~ Russian Proverbs
Quotations about Houses
Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches. ~ Bible
To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a “home” might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation. ~ Emily Post
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house. ~ Ben Johnson
The world is the house of the strong. ~ Denis Diderot
Every spirit makes its house, but as after wards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well. ~ Elbert Hubbard Quotes
Good food and a warm kitchen are what make a house a home. ~ Rachael Ray
Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. ~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
He who leaves his house in search of happiness pursues a shadow. ~ Author Unknown
A man’s house is his castle. ~ Edward Coke
My kid’s idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone. ~ George Foreman
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience. ~ Sydney Smith
Getting your house in order and reducing the confusion gives you more control over your life. Personal organization somehow releases or frees you to operate more effectively. ~ Larry King
One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness. ~ Edward Dahlberg
The house is a castle which the King cannot enter. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house. ~ George Carlin
I had three chairs in my house: one for solitude, two for friendship, and three for society. ~ Henry David Thoreau
Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints. ~ Napoleon Hill Quotes
The difference between a house and a home is like the difference between a man and a woman–it might be embarrassing to explain, but it would be very unusual to get them confused. ~ Daniel Handler
The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses. ~ Charlotte P. Gillman
A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams. ~ Author Unknown
A good laugh is sunshine in the house. ~ William M. Thackeray
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. ~ Margaret Witter Fuller
Every house where love abides and friendship is a guest, is surely home, and home sweet home , for there the heart can rest. ~ Henry Van Dyke
Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man. ~ Sam Walter Foss
If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace. ~ Gaston Bachelard
Your treasure house is within; it contains all you’ll ever need. ~ Hui-Hai
A house is a machine for living in. ~ Le Corbusier
If you burn your neighbor’s house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better. ~ Lou Holtz
Character is like the foundation of a house — it is below the surface. ~ Author Unknown
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. ~ Authour Unknown
One may make their house a palace of shame, or they can make it a home, a refuge. ~ Mark Twain Quotes
I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures. ~ Jane Smiley
Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them. ~ Victor Hugo Quotes
Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. ~ William Morris
May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world.~ Jonathan Carroll
People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.~ Karl Pilkington
I’ve got seven kids. The three words you hear most around my house are ‘hello’, ‘goodbye’, and ‘I’m pregnant’. ~ Dean Martin
No guest is so welcome in a friend’s house that he will not become a nuisance after three days. ~ Plautus
A house divided against itself cannot stand. ~ Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Hate has no place in the house of God. ~ Desmond Tutu
The White House is the finest prison in the world. ~ Harry S Truman
A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless. ~ May Sarton
Home is the place where we are treated the best, but grumble the most. ~ Author Unknown
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience. ~ Robert Fulghum
A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion. ~ Sai Baba
The ego is not master in its own house. ~ Sigmund Freud
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. ~ Joan Crawford
In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face. ~ Diogenes
Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
