A home is…
A home is a place you grow up wanting to leave and grow old wanting to get back to. – John Ed Pierce
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A house is made of walls and beams
A house is made of walls and beams. A home is built with love and dreams.
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.
A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
A subject for a great poet would be God’s boredom after the seventh day of creation.
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?
Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.
An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn’t.
William Somerset Maugham Quotes
Love is a dirty trick played on us to achieve the continuation of the species.
A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn’t want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.
Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less.
Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.
Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.
Have common sense and stick to the point.
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.
I’ll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell… their heart’s in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
Wisdom Quotes
The future is like a baboons ass, colorful and full of shit. – Arne Anka
It is annoying to be honest to no purpose. – Unknown
It is better to have men ask why you have no statue, than why you have one. – Unknown
Money will not buy happiness, but it will let you be unhappy in nice places. – Unknown
For a human there are but three great events: to be born, to live and to die. She doesn’t know she is born, he suffers of dying and she forgets to live. – Jean de la Bryère
Tell me what you’re laughing at and I shall tell you who you are. – Goethe
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again — and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. – Mark Twain
You can cheat an honest man but not make a fool out of him. – Confucius
Ageing isn’t that bad if you consider the alternatives. – Maurice Chevalier
A home without books is a body without soul. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
If the world was blind
If the world was blind
no one would feel ugly
no one would have starve
them selves to be skinny
girls wouldn’t waste money on tanning booths and fake eye lashes
guys wouldnt pick girls based on the hottness scale and ditch the real girls
No one would be home alone listening to their ipods they could have a chance at having a great life
Only if the world was blind
could everyone be friends and feel beautiful
Only if the world was blind
people would stay true to their relationships and never cheat
Only if the world was blind
no one would ever be emberrassed by their clothes or houses
or even their own skin
Only if the world was blind
everyone could “fit in”
Quick Quote about Home
“A home is a place you grow up wanting to leave and grow old wanting to get back to.” – John Ed Pierce