| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. | | | | House |
| | | Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them. Victor Hugo. | 1 |
| | Old houses mended, |
| Cost little less than new before they’re ended. |
Colley Cibber. | 2 |
| The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence as for his repose. Sir Edward Coke. | 3 |
| My precept to all who build is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner. Cicero. | 4 |
| A house is never perfectly furnished for enjoyment unless there is a child in it rising three years old, and a kitten rising six weeks. Southey. | 5 | | |
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