I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.
Source: They and I, ch. 11 (1909).
-- Jerome K Jerome, (May 2 1859-1927), English author; His warm, unsatirical, and unintellectual humour won him wide following, e.g., Three Men in a Boat, 1889.