Hearth & Home

May 5th, 2008
The Termite
by Ogden Nash

Some primal termite knocked on wood
And tasted it, and found it good!
And that is why your Cousin May
Fell through the parlor floor today.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It’s difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.
~ Lewis Grizzard

May your home be filled with laughter
May your pockets be filled with gold
And may you have all the happiness
Your Irish heart can hold.
~ Irish Blessing

There is no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat.
~ Wesley Bates

When I was at home,
I was in a better place.
~ William Shakespeare

Ah! There’s nothing like staying home for real comfort.
~ Jane Austen

Blow gentle, wind, around this house;
May happiness dwell here,
For these four walls contain the sum
Of all whom we hold dear.
May those who sit around our fire
Forget their load of care,
Rekindle dreams of heart’s desires
As peace and joy they share.

Blow gently, winds; fall softly, rain,
And may a kind sun glow
And songbirds sing a sweet refrain;
May love and wisdom grow.
~ Alice MacKenzie Swaim

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright

A house is built
with boards and beams.
A home is built
with love and dreams.

Never invest your money in anything
that eats or needs painting.
~ Billy Rose
Every house where love abides and friendship is a guest is surely home, and
home, sweet home; for there the heart can rest.
~ Henry Van Dyke
Where we love is home…home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
To be happy at home is the ultimate result
of all ambition.
~ Samuel Johnson
A man travels the world over in search of
what he needs and returns home to find it.
~ George Moore
Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together….
~ Carl Zwanzig

Give me a house
To call my own,
Family and friends
To call it a home.

God is in the details.
~ Mies van der Rohe
Home is where one starts from.
~ T. S. Eliot

This compilation has been collected for the intention of offering inspiration and embellishment for the personal scrapbooks, journals and cards of crafters.  If you intend to create works for sale, please seek the permission of the author or copyright holder.

Ogden Nash poems Copyright © by Linell Nash Smith and Isabel Nash Eberstadt

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