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Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
Written by Frank Lloyd Wright
I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.
Written by Gerald R. Ford
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.
Written by Robert Fulghum
The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.
Written by Leon Edel
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
Written by Henry Ward Beecher
If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.
Written by Edmund Wilson
Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
Written by Will Rogers
Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Written by Harry Emerson Fosdick
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
Written by Benjamin Disraeli
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.
Written by Jean Kerr
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
Written by Immanuel Kant
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Written by Henry David Thoreau
The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
Written by Khalil Gibran
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
Written by Paul McCartney
Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice.
Written by Andreas Capellanus
May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
Written by George Carlin
If you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed.
Written by James Buchanan
Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently.
Written by Harry A. Blackmun
Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house.
Written by Benjamin Britten
No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.
Written by Van Wyck Brooks
An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.
Written by Maria Callas
If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.
Written by Winston Churchill
The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.
Written by Leon Edel
Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn't belong to the White House aides. What meat do they eat that makes them grow so great?
Written by Sam Ervin
We wish nothing more, but we will accept nothing less. Masters in our own house we must be, but our house is the whole of Canada.
Written by Pierre Trudeau
For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in.
Written by Barbara Tuchman
There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the television set.
Written by Harriet Van Horne
A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes.
Written by Hugh Sidey
Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.
Written by Robert Frost
The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn.
Written by Graham Greene

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