Best House Quotes

• Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

  William Morris

  Life, Happiness, Beauty

  Hopes and Fears for Art "The Beauty of Life" (1882)

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• Like I always say, there's no "I" in "team." There is a "me," though, if you jumble it up.

  David Shore

  Team, House, Ifs

  "Fictional character: Dr. Gregory House". TV Series "House" ("DNR", 2005), 2004-2012.

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• Once you can fake sincerity, you can fake anything.

  Mary Jo Putney

  Fake, Sincerity, Everybody Lies

  Mary Jo Putney (2002). “The Spiral Path”, Center Point Pub

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• It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what.

  Hugh Laurie

  Lying, House, Variables

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• The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Country, White, House

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• Your performance depends on your people. Select the best, train them and back them. When errors occur, give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong, help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Country, Moving, Errors

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• Drive inexpensive cars, but own the best house you can afford.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Home, Car, House

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.5, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The top 1 percent have the best houses, the best educations, the best doctors, and the best lifestyles, but there is one thing that money doesn't seem to have bought: an understanding that their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live. Throughout history, this is something that the top 1 percent eventually do learn. Too late.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Fate, Doctors, House

  Joseph Stiglitz (2015). “The Great Divide”, p.110, Penguin UK

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• Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

  Alexander Pope

  God, Angel, Pride

  Alexander Pope (1830). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Etc”, p.46

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• Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we have breeches. Stones were formed to be quarried and to build castles; and My Lord has a very noble castle; the greatest Baron in the province should have the best house; and as pigs were made to be eaten, we eat pork all year round; consequently, those who have asserted all is well talk nonsense; they ought to have said that all is for the best.

  Voltaire

  Years, Pigs, Should Have

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.154, Penguin

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• The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned, The highest peak hasn't been climbed yet, The mightiest rivers aren't spanned; Don't worry and fret, faint-hearted, The chances have just begun For the best jobs haven't been started, The best work hasn't been done.

  Berton Braley

  Jobs, Best Job, Rivers

  Berton Braley, “Opportunity”

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