Roof Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old roof quotes, roof sayings, and roof proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Look for happiness under your own roof. Gretchen Rubin
Another roof, another proof. Paul Erdos
If it's raining you can't fix the roof, if it's not raining it doesn't need to be fixed. Jim Rohn
Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof. Richard Bach
We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight. P. G. Wodehouse
Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings. Bram Stoker
Every roof is agreeable to the eye, until it is lifted, then we find tragedy and moaning women, and hard-eyed husbands. Ralph Waldo Emerson
One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls. Khaled Hosseini
Some men are like a clock on the roof; they are useful only to the neighbors. Austin O'Malley
Seven cities warred for Homer, being dead, Who, living, had no roof to shroud his head. Thomas Heywood
I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep. George Henry Borrow
A foolish man in wealth and authority is like a weak-timbered house with a too-ponderous roof. Roger Chamberlain
The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in. Laozi
Golden roofs break men's rest. Seneca
Satan may build a hedge about us and fence us in and hinder our movements, but he cannot roof us in and prevent our looking up. Hudson Taylor
Do not sleep under a roof. Carry no money or food. Go alone to places frightening to the common brand of men. Become a criminal of purpose. Be put in jail, and extricate yourself by your own wisdom. Miyamoto Musashi
We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell. Jack Kerouac
When I had no roof I made audacity my roof. Robert Pinsky