Famous Quotes

"How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home."

William Cowper 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 William Cowper

• "The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged."

• "Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair."

• "Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too."

• "God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm."

• "Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose."