Cider House Rules

Famous quotes containing the words house and/or rules:

    “It is written, “My house shall be called a house of prayer”; but you are making it a den of robbers.”
    —Bible: New Testament, Matthew 21:13.

    Jesus.

    “When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker to certain rules of theirs ... I see that they forget that the first requisite and rule is that expression shall be vital and natural, as much as the voice of a brute or an interjection: first of all, mother tongue; and last of all, artificial or father tongue. Essentially your truest poetic sentence is as free and lawless as a lamb’s bleat.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)