I, with other Americans, have perhaps unduly resented the stream of criticism of American life... more particularly have I resented the sneers at Main Street. For I have known that in the cottages that lay behind the street rested the strength of our national character. Herbert Hoover
It is a city of neat cottages and cobbled streets where wander cats without number, for the enlightened legislators of long ago laid down laws for our protection. A good, kind village, where travelers take their ease and pet the cats, making much of them, which is as it should be. Roger Zelazny
Petty souls are more susceptible to ambition than great ones, just as straw or thatched cottages burn more easily than palaces. Nicolas Chamfort
Love lives in palaces as well as in thatched cottages. Japanese Proverb
Love lives in cottages as well as in courts. English Proverb
Content lodges oftener in cottages than palaces. Romanian Proverb