“Ah! there is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.”
Emma (1815)
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English novelist 1775–1817Related quotes
“If we stayed home and did nothing, doom would find us anyway, sooner or later.”
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892–1973) British philologist and author, creator of classic fantasy works
Context: 'Of course, it is likely enough, my friends,' he said slowly, 'likely enough that we are going to our doom: the last march of the Ents. But if we stayed home and did nothing, doom would find us anyway, sooner or later. That thought has long been growing in our hearts; and that is why we are marching now. It was not a hasty resolve. Now at least the last march of the Ents may be worth a song.
“Hamm: Ah, the old questions, the old answers, there's nothing like them!”
Samuel Beckett (1906–1989) Irish novelist, playwright, and poet
Endgame (1957)
“Stay, stay at home, my heart and rest;
Home-keeping hearts are happiest.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet
Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist
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“Ah, my friend, one may live in a big house and yet have no comfort.”
Agatha Christie book The Mysterious Affair at Styles
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
“There is nothing like having a United Nations at home.”
Newton Lee American computer scientist
Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2015
“Time goes, you say? Ah, no!
Alas, Time stays, we go.”
Henry Austin Dobson (1840–1921) English poet and essayist
The Paradox of Time http://books.google.com/books?id=KW4NAAAAYAAJ&q="time+goes+you+say+ah+no+alas+time+stays+we+go"&pg=PA175#v=onepage (1886).