“A man in the house is worth two in the street.”

— Mae West

Belle of the Nineties (1934)

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American actress and sex symbol 1893–1980

James Fenton (1949) poet

German Requiem, line 1 (1980).

“The street enters the house.”

Umberto Boccioni (1882–1916) Italian painter and sculptor

the title of one of Boccioni's most Futurist paintings: street enters the house' https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/Boccioni_The_Street_Enters_The_House.jpg'The; Boccioni painted it in 1911.
1911

“Like any other day, Kausani with every passing minute emerged out of the darkness, tree by tree, house by house, street by street.”

Surendra Pratap Singh (1948–1997) Indian journalist

Parrot Under the Pine Tree

“Let the directions of your streets and alleys be laid down on the lines of division between the quarters of two winds. On this principle of arrangement the disagreeable force of the winds will be shut out from dwellings and lines of houses.”

Vitruvius book De architectura

Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book I, Chapter VI, Sec. 7-8
Context: Let the directions of your streets and alleys be laid down on the lines of division between the quarters of two winds. On this principle of arrangement the disagreeable force of the winds will be shut out from dwellings and lines of houses. For if the streets run full in the face of the winds, their constant blasts rushing in from the open country, and then confined by narrow alleys, will sweep through them with great violence. The lines of houses must therefore be directed away from the quarters from which the winds blow, so that as they come in they may strike against the angles of the blocks and their force thus be broken and dispersed.