The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
Plautus

Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
Edmund Burke

If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
William Tecumseh Sherman

I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property.'
Joan Rivers

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
Eric Hoffer

The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.
Richard M. Nixon

There will be no whitewash in the White House.
Richard M. Nixon

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

I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.
Billie Joe Armstrong

If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.
Billie Joe Armstrong

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.
Jean Kerr

What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?
Sophocles

After having dispatched a meal, I went ashore, and found no habitation save a single house, and that without an occupant; we had no doubt that the people had fled in terror at our approach, as the house was completely furnished.
Christopher Columbus

Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
W. E. B. Du Bois

Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after.
Thomas Fuller

Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
Quentin Crisp

Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.
Thomas Fuller

A face is like the outside of a house, and most faces, like most houses, give us an idea of what we can expect to find inside.
Loretta Young