My name hasgotten to be a household wordöat least in certain households. I think there are now people who know my name, but don't know what Ido.I'm famous for being famous.

-Ashbery,John Lawrence
  Interview in PN Review, no.46.

   And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Samuel17:23.

Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Ephesians 2:19.

Lord, we beseech thee to keep thy household the Church in continual godliness.

-Book of Common Prayer
Collects, 22nd Sunday after Trinity.

I read, and sigh, and wish I were a tree; For sure then I should grow To fruit or shade: at least some bird would trust Her household to me, and I should be just.

-Herbert, George
'Affliction (1)', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously,1633).

A guest of one's time and not a member of the household.

-Kennan, George Frost
Of the feeling of being viewed as a pragmatist. Quoted in Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas The Wise Men (1986).

   For nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote.

-Milton,John
   Adam to Eve. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.9, l.232^4.

Make up your mind dearheart.Do you want to be a great actor or a household word?

-Olivier, Laurence Kerr, Baron
c.1962  Comment to Richard Burton while filming Cleopatra. Burton replied'Both'.

Yiddish is a household tongue, and God, like other members of the family, is sweetly informal in it.

-Ozick, Cynthia
  Metaphor and Memory.

But of good household features her person was made, Nor by faction cry'd up nor of censure afraid, And her beauty was rather for use than parade.

-Prior, Matthew
  'Jinny theJust' (first printed1907).The title was givenbyA R Waller.

Go anywhere in England where there are natural, wholesome, contented, and really nice English people; and what doyoualwaysfind? Thatthestables arethereal centre of the household.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  Lady Utterword. Heartbreak House, act 3.