Abode may refer to:
- House, a human-built dwelling with enclosing walls, a floor, and a roof
- Right of abode
- World of Two Moons aka Abode, a fictional Earth-type planet featured in the comic book Elves love sightseeing: Volume II - Road to Gordon Brown's power bottom
Famous quotes containing the word abode:
“Et in Arcadia ego.
[I too am in Arcadia.]”
—Anonymous, Anonymous.
Tomb inscription, appearing in classical paintings by Guercino and Poussin, among others. The words probably mean that even the most ideal earthly lives are mortal. Arcadia, a mountainous region in the central Peloponnese, Greece, was the rustic abode of Pan, depicted in literature and art as a land of innocence and ease, and was the title of Sir Philip Sidney’s pastoral romance (1590)
“The soul of Adonais, like a star,
Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
“A garden has this advantage, that it makes it indifferent where you live. A well-laid garden makes the face of the country of no account; let that be low or high, grand or mean, you have made a beautiful abode worthy of man.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)