HOUSE

Related Subjects: Address, Building, Home, Window

1. 
   The beauty of the house is order;
   The blessing of the house is contentment;
   The glory of the house is hospitality;
   The crown of the house is godliness.—Anonymous, Fireplace Motto
   

2. Houses are built to live in, and not to look on; therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.—BACON, Essays
   

3. Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it.—Bible, Psalm 127:1
   

4. Old houses mended,
   Cost little less than new before they're ended.—COLLEY CIBBER, The Double Gallant
   

5. The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence as for his repose.—SIR EDWARD COKE,
   Semayne's Case
   

6. Oh, to have a little house
   To own the hearth and stool and all!—PADRAIC COLUM, An Old Woman of the Roads
   

7. And I am praying God on high,
   And I am praying Him night and day,
   For a little house—a house of my own—
   Out of the wind's and the rain's way.—PADRAIC COLUM, An Old Woman of the Roads
   

8. All houses wherein men have lived and died
   Are haunted houses.—LONGFELLOW, Haunted Houses
   

9. I in mine own house am an emperor
   And will defend what's mine.—MASSINGER, The Roman Actor
   

10. My house, my house, though thou art small, thou art to me the Escurial.—Proverb
    

11. Burn not your house to fright away the mice.—Proverb
    

12. Better one's house be too little one day than too big all the year after.—Proverb
    

13. As if the story of a house
    Were told, or ever could be.—E. A. ROBINSON, Eros Tyrannos
    

14. This house is turned upside down.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV
    

15. A plague o' both your houses!—SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet

16. When you dwell in a house you mislike, you will look out of window a deal more than those that are content with their dwelling.—MARY WEBB, Precious Bane