Famous Quotes

"A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond."

Oliver Goldsmith on Home

More quotes about Home

• "Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country."

  Margaret Thatcher on Home

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

  Benjamin Franklin on Home

• "Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts."

  Oliver Wendell Holmes on Home

• "Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home."

  Bill Cosby on Home

• "Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in."

  Robert Frost on Home

More quotes by Oliver Goldsmith

• "A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future."

• "Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!"

• "Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other."

• "Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves."

• "A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future."