"The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable."

Home, Work, Husbeffect

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"The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable."

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"Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Home, Death, Night, Will

"Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again."

Madeleine L'Engle, American Novelist

Home, Travel, Comfort, Nostalgia

"Everything I'd been longing to get away from, true, but not through destruction. I'd wanted to leave home, but have it stay in place, waiting for me, unchanged, so I could step back into it at will."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Home, Change, Escape, Stability

"We improved the environment in which our children live, learn and play by decreasing crime and clamping down on abuse and violence in the home and on the streets."

Jane D. Hull, American Politician

Home, Abuse, Children, Crime

"My mother was a churchgoing lady, so I always heard about God at home."

Smokey Robinson, American Musician

Home, Mother, God, Lady

"Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time."

Meryl Streep, American Actress

Home, Time

"Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

Home, Friendship, Enemy, Life

"I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into a Christian home."

Cat Stevens, British Musician

Home, Business, Christian, Luxury

"The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it."

James Thurber, American Comedian

Home, Success, Quality, Comedy

"There's nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife."

Steven Curtis Chapman, American Musician

Home, Wife, Cheating, Nothing

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"Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing."

Morality

"The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing."

Age

"There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion."

Religion

"It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge."

Knowledge

"In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists."

Christian

"At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified."

Beginning

"When love is suppressed hate takes its place."

Love

"Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life."

Life

"Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy."

Genius

"In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met along the way."

Goal