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A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants.... The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not, of course, give them the feelings and manners of gentle folks, or in any way really raise them above the servants they employ, who are quite aware of this fact, and that the possession of wealth is literally the only superiority their employers have over them.

A great many persons are able to become Members of this House without losing their insignificance.

A group called Draft Biden 2016 has started selling bumper stickers that say 'I'm ridin' with Biden.' It's a lot better than the other one that women around the White House have started using - 'I'm hidin' from Biden.'

A heap of bricks is not yet a house.

A handgun ban is not realistically enforceable. Confiscating guns would require house-to-house searches and alienate the very individuals whose compliance is essential to the success of any regulation. If gun ownership were prohibited, organized crime would step in to provide the firearms that will continue to be procured with criminal intent.

A house can have integrity, just like a person.

A house is a machine for living in.

A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. For human beings are not so constituted that they can live without expansion. If they do not get it in one way, they must in another, or perish.

A house panel in Texas has approved full marijuana legalization for the state. Yeah, meaning Texas could go from having dude ranches to 'Dude, ranches.'

A house with a great wine stored below lives in our imagination as a joyful house, fast and splendidly rooted in the soil.

A house built on greed cannot long endure.

A house is a compressed territory where our basic needs can be fulfilled close by and safely.

A house of which one knew every room wasn't worth living in.

A house though otherwise beautiful, yet if it hath no garden belonging to it, is more like a prison than a house.

A hotel isn't like a home, but it's better than being a house guest.

A house built on sand is, in fair weather, just as good as if builded on a rock. A cobweb is as good as the mightiest chain cable when there is no strain on it. It is trial that proves one thing weak and another strong.

A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.

A house should be a synthesis of comfort, practicality, and tradition.

A house should look lived in, and I consider it clean as long as I don't stick to it and it doesn't give me cholera.

A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.

A house without a roof would scarcely be a more different home, than a family unsheltered by God's friendship, and the sense of being always rested in His providential care and guidance.

A house without security cannot be a home!

A hotel, he told me, was a big house where a lot of people lived and ate and slept, but no one knew each other. He said that described most families in the outside world.

A house divided cannot stand for long. That goes for politicians and the rest of us.

A house is more than just a shelter; that it is a way of improving your way of life.

A house is not a home without a cat.

A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.

A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.

A house with no fireplace is a house without a heart.

A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe.

A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.

A house is never perfectly furnished for enjoyment unless there is a child in it rising three years old, and a kitten rising three weeks.

A house is not a home.

A house should look after itself - as the weather heats up the house cools down, as the weather cools down the house heats up. It's simple stuff, you know? We've known how to do it for a long time.

A house that has a library in it has a soul.

A house with old furniture has no need of ghosts to be haunted.

A house without love ain't a home.

Ah, that is a perfume in which I delight; when they roast coffee near my house, I hasten to open the door to take in all the aroma.

A human spirit may find no insufficiency of food fit for it, even in the Custom House.

A husband is very much like a house or a horse.

A kitchen is a good place to be, almost always the best place in the house.

A lady once offered me a mat, but as I had no room to spare within the house, nor time to spare within or without to shake it, I declined it, preferring to wipe my feet on the sod before my door. It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

A large number of us have developed a feeling that architects tend to design houses for the approval of fellow architects and critics, not for the tenants.

Alas! It is well written, The road to eminence lies through the cheap and exceedingly uninviting eating-houses.

A little House well fill'd, a little Field well till'd, and a little Wife well will'd, are great Riches.

All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.

A little manic was what their house ran on.

All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.

All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.

All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.