Quotes of: Houses Keyword

The open house makes a good man of the thief.

Spanish

If you see a frog squatting on his house, don't ask him for a chair.

Togolese

If the lady of the house breaks something it is an unfortunate accident; if the servant does, then it is a terrible disaster.

Turkish

Mix with your neighbors, and you learn what's doing in your own house.

Yiddish

We worked like dogs, we ate like hogs, and we slept like logs.

Fix 'em Up, Rent 'em Out: How to Start Your Own House Fix-up & Rental Business in Your Spare Time; or, Investing in Real Estate and Creating Wealth with Fixer-Upper Houses

It was a mistake to think of houses, old houses, as being empty. They were filled with memories, with the faded echoes of voices. Drops of tears, drops of blood, the ring of laughter, the edge of tempers that had ebbed and flowed between the walls, i...

Key of Knowledge

We have two minds. One thinks, the other knows. The mind that knows goes back many lifetimes. This is the mind of the one heart, of all things: the trees, the plants, the clouds, the rivers, the mountains. The more time you spend with this mind, the ...

Na Bolom: House of the Jaguar

When I walked into the house, I went in search of one of my dad's bottles. Not that they were that hard to find. He hid bottles all over the house. I knew where they all were. That was one of my hobbies, finding where my dad hid his bottles. It was m...

Last Night I Sang to the Monster

Of course, thanks to the house, a great many of our memories are housed, and if the house is a bit elaborate, if it has a cellar and a garret, nooks and corridors, our memories have refuges that are all the more clearly delineated. All our lives we c...

Gaston Bachelard

[Riggs and Murtaugh pull up outside Dixie's house to check out a theory] Roger Murtaugh: Like I said, thin. Martin Riggs: Probably nothing. [the house explodes, knocking them both to the ground. Murtaugh throws himself on Riggs] Martin Riggs: What ar...

Lethal Weapon

Joey glanced at his alarm clock and saw it was just before midnight. His eyes drifted to his bookshelf. Lined up in a row, in the order of their publication, were all of the Spook Boys books, a series of kids’ books about two adventurous brothers w...

The House on Creep Street

Were everyone to sweep in front of his own house, every street would be clean.

Dutch

An old man in the house is a burden, but an old woman is a treasure.

Hebrew

There are three things that attract: a house for its inhabitants, a woman for her spouse, and a bargain for a customer.

Hebrew

The smoke of my own house is better than another man's fire.

Italian

It is better to be a free man in a small house than a slave in a big one.

Norwegian

An empty purse and a new house make a man wise, but too late.

Portuguese

If you are building a house and a nail breaks, do you stop building, or do you change the nail?

Rwandan

A beautiful wife without money is like a fine house without furniture.

Spanish

The road of "about," leads only to the house of "never." Near the spring nobody dies of thirst.

Spanish

In Morocco," said Osman, "word spreads like a fire tearing through the depths of Hell.

The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca