It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, thanwith a brawling woman in a wide house.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Proverbs 21:9.

  In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the L of hosts: the whole earth isfull of hisglory. And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDIsaiah 6:1^4.

Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes?

-Bible (Old Testament)
Jeremiah 7:11.

Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built hishouseupona rock: And theraindescended, and thefloodscame, and thewindsblew, and beat uponthat house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 7:24^7.

And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, whenye departoutofthat house orcity, shake off the dust of your feet.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew10:14.

When the unclean spirit isgone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew12:43^5.

Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 24:42^3.

And intowhatsoeverhouseye enter, first say,Peacebeto this house. And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it: if not, it shall turn to you again. And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Luke10:5^7.

   Inmy Father'shousearemanymansions: if it werenot so, Iwould havetold you.Igotopreparea placefor you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St  John14:2^3.

For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Corinthians 5:1.

Nisi Dominus aedificaverit domum, in vanum laboraverunt qui aedificant eam. Nisi Dominus custodierit civitatem, frustra vigilat qui custodit eam. Unless the Lord has built the house, its builders have laboured in vain.Unless the Lord guards the city, the watchman watches in vain.

-Bible (Vulgate)
Psalm126:1 (Psalm127:1  Authorized Version).

Peace be to this house.

-Book of Common Prayer
Visitation of the Sick.

Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

-Burke, Edmund
  Reflections on the Revolution in France.

Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life; but only the house wherein our Life is led.

-Carlyle,Thomas
  Critical and Miscellaneous Essays,'History'.

A man's house is his castle.

-Coke, Sir Edward
  The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, ch.73.

Oh, to have a little house! To own the hearth and stool and all! The heaped-up sods upon the fire, The pile of turf against the wall! To have a clock with weights and chains And pendulum swinging up and down, A dresser filled with shining delph, Speckled and white and blue and brown!

-Colum, Padraic
c.1907  'An Old Woman of the Roads'.

I want to be something so muchworthier thanthe doll in the doll's house.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^5  Bella. Our Mutual Friend, bk.4, ch.5.

One need not be a Chamberöto be Hauntedö One need not be a Houseö The brain has Corridorsösurpassing Material Placeö

-Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth
c.1863  Complete Poems, no.670 (first published1891).

If a traveller were informed that such a man was Leader of the House of Commons, he may well begin to comprehend how the Egyptians came to worship an insect.

-Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
  Of Lord John Russell.  Attributed.

And seeing the snail, which everywhere doth roam, Carrying his own house still, still is at home, Follow (for he is easy paced) this snail, Be thine own palace, or the world's thy gaol.

-Donne,John
^8  'To Sir Henry Wotton'.