Sayings about Home
Earth is but a marketplace; heaven is home. ~ West African Proverb
If you have a good cellar at home don’t go drinking at the tavern. ~ Italian Proverb
Before preparing to improve the world, first look around your own home three times. ~ Chinese Proverb
God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home. ~ French Proverb
The lonely person is at home everywhere. ~ Russian Proverb
He who wants to be happy must stay at home. ~ Greek Proverb
If you love your son, make him leave home. ~ Japanese Proverb
If you’re going home, you don’t get wet. ~ African Proverb
Away from home they look at your clothes. At home they look at what is under them. ~ Chinese Proverb
No one with a good catch of fish goes home by the back alley. ~ Traditional Proverb
He who travels a lot becomes wise; he who is wise stays home. ~ Chinese Proverb
If the dog is not at home, he barks not. ~ Senegalese Proverb
Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children make a home. ~ Irish Proverb
The sun at home warms better than the sun elsewhere. ~ Albanian Proverb
The wise traveler leaves his heart at home. ~ African Proverb
It is often more difficult to come back home than it is to go away. ~ Chinese Proverb
Light your lamp first at home and after wards at the mosque. ~ Islamic Proverb
Rather free in a foreign place than a slave back home. ~ Norwegian Proverb
If there is righteousness in the heart, there will be beauty in character. If there is beauty in character, there will be harmony in the home. If there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, there will. ~ Chinese Proverb
When we are at our happiest, then it is best to leave and go home. ~ Czech Proverb
An Englishman’s home is his castle. ~ Traditional Proverb
Where there is no wife, there is no home. ~ Yugoslavian Proverb
A woman’s place is in the home. ~ Traditional Proverb
If you stay at home you won’t wear out your shoes. ~ Yiddish Proverb
Living is worthless for one without a home. ~ Ethiopian Proverb
Better than a banquet somewhere else is a good cup of tea and a bowl of rice at home. ~ Japanese Proverb
At home saints never perform miracles. ~ Brazilian Proverb
Where I make my living, there is my home. ~ Somali Proverb
A lonely person is at home everywhere. ~ Russian Proverb
If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse. ~ Traditional Proverb
A home without a woman is like a barn without cattle. ~ Ethiopian Proverb
It is at home, not in public, that one washes his dirty linen. ~ French Proverb
It is better to be a free man in a small house than a slave in a big one. ~ Norwegian Proverb
The wise man and the tortoise travel but never leave their home. ~ Chinese Proverb
Not the place where I was born but where I hang my hat is home. ~ African Proverb
On the road between the homes of friends, grass does not grow. ~ Norwegian Proverb
Better be kind at home than burn incense in a far place. ~ Chinese Proverb
Although the snake does not fly it has caught the bird whose home is in the sky. ~ Nigerian Proverb
he longest road out is the shortest road home. ~ Irish Proverbs
He makes his home where the living is best. ~ Latin Proverbs
Who asks at once for a lot, returns home with an empty bag. ~ Yugoslavian Proverb
A king’s castle is his home. ~ Traditional Proverb
You cannot buy wisdom abroad if there is none at home. ~ Russian Proverbs
Abroad we judge the dress; at home we judge the man. ~ Chinese Proverb
The liar will travel the world over, but chooses not to go back home. ~ Polish Proverb
Who knows the language is at home everywhere. ~ Dutch Proverb
Home is where you can say anything you like cause nobody listens to you anyway. ~ Author Unknown
There’s no place like home. ~ English Proverbs
Be a lion at home and a fox abroad. ~ Iranian Proverb
Every dog is a lion at home. ~ Italian Proverbs
He who cannot pray at home will celebrate mass somewhere else. ~ Armenian Proverbs
Better a stupid wife than a mess at home. ~ Togolese Proverb
A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home. ~ Chinese Proverb
East, west, home’s best. ~ Traditional Proverb
You travel on until you return home; you live on until you return to earth. ~ Ethiopian Proverb
Affairs of the home should not be discussed in the public square. ~ Kenyan Proverb
Away from home the girl picks forbidden fruit. ~ Bantu Proverb
He is guilty who is not at home. ~ Ukrainian Proverbs
Quotations about Home
Home is the place, where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. ~ Robert Frost Quotes
No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place like home. ~ L. Frank Baum
For too many people, coming home is like arriving at a second job. With all the chores to do, bills to pay, mail to answer, e-mail to answer, and the rest, home can seem more like a pit stop than a sanctuary. ~ Victoria Moran
Home is like a bee-hive; there may be much toil, there must be much order, but there will always be a honeyed sweetness. ~ Ebenezer Coloham Brewer
Money will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not brains; food but not appetite; finery but not beauty; a house but not a home; medicine but not health; luxuries but not culture; amusements but not happiness; religion but not salvation; a passport to everywhere but heaven. ~ Author Unknown
Home is the place where you are most thoroughly yourself, with no pretenses. ~ Victoria Moran
He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Where we love is home, Home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
A man’s home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside, it is more often his nursery. ~ Clare Boothe Luce
The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose. ~ Lord Edward Coke
Home is like a house inside your head where your thoughts gather. ~ Marcus Eriksen
Home makes the man. ~ Samuel Smiles
Home is a shelter from storms — all sorts of storms. ~ William J. Bennett
Home, in one form or another, is the great object of life. ~ Josiah Gilbert Holland
Home is where you can say anything you like cause nobody listens to you anyway. ~ Author Unknown
Home is the seminary of all other institutions. There are the roots of all public prosperity, the foundations of the State, the germs of the church. There is all that in the child makes the future man; all that in the man makes the good citizen. ~ E. H. Chapin
The first indication of domestic happiness is the love of one’s home. ~ Francois Dominique Reynaud de comte de Montlosier
If you know you’re going home, the journey is never too hard. ~ Angela Wood
A home is like a nest–it’s only useful for so long. ~ David Lynch
Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness. Home is where the heart’s tears can dry at their own pace. ~ Vernon Baker
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition; the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. ~ Samuel Johnson
Home is where the heart is. ~ Joseph C. Neal
Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to. ~ John Ed Pearce
You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it’s all right. ~ Maya Angelou
The light is what guides you home, the warmth is what keeps you there. ~ Ellie Rodriguez
Any old place I can hang my hat is home sweet home to me. ~ William Jerome
Home is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse. ~ George Bernard Shaw Quotes
“Home” is any four walls that enclose the right person. ~ Helen Rowland
The three most important factors in buying a home are, location, location, location! ~ Author Unknown
To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home. ~ Author Unknown
Home is not where you live but where they understand you. ~ Christian Morgenstern
It takes hands to build a house, but only hearts can build a home. ~ Author Unknown
There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. ~ Jane Austen