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"Piety is indifferent whether she enters at the eye or at the ear. There is none of the senses at which she does not knock one day or other. The Puritans forgot this, and thrust Beauty out of the meeting-house and slammed the door in her face."
"When you let the wolves guard the hen house, there's bound to be a few chicken dinners."
"Some critics are like chimney-sweepers; they put out the fire below, and frighten the swallows from their nests above; they scrape a long time in the chimney, cover themselves with soot, and bring nothing away but a bag of cinders, and then sing from the top of the house as if they had built it."
"Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes."
"The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds."
"I felt it was my duty to praise all of God's works with fervent enthusiasm. At the same time I killed flies in my house in a spirit of hatred, exasperation and contempt. My praise to God for all his works was dishonest, the act of killing the fly was honest."
"The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work."
"Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows"
"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."
"The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?"
"Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House."
"The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives. I wondered if that was sort of the point of architecture."
"I have known some men possessed of good qualities which were very serviceable to others, but useless to themselves; like a sun-dial on the front of a house, to inform the neighbours and passengers, but not the owner within."
"London, with its monotonous and melancholy houses, seems like an inharmonious patchwork, as if pieced together without design. Yet it is lovable in its sprawling confusion."
"What farmers require is, that the prices should be moderate, and the markets steady and for this reason I did, in 1826, 1827, and 1828, take the course which I would now recommend to the House."
"Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect ourselves."
"Reality is a narrow little house which becomes a prison to those who can't get out of it."
"You can control yourself if you really want to. I'll tell you how I know you can control yourself. If you were in a full fledged emotional temper tantrum in your house and I knocked on your front door..... Come on! Let me tell you what, you would get control of yourself, and it would only take a few seconds."
"The United States Congress, like a lot of rich people, lives in two houses."
"'House' was such a special part of my life."
