Better a stupid wife than a mess at home.
—African Proverb
Six things are requisite to create a “happy home.” Integrity must be the architect, and tidiness the upholsterer. It must be warmed by affection, lighted up with cheerfulness; and industry must be the ventilator, renewing the atmosphere and bringing in fresh salubrity day by day; while over all, as a protecting canopy and glory, nothing will suffice except the blessing of God.
—James Hamilton (1814–67) Scottish Protestant Minister
Look well to the hearthstone; therein all hope for America lies.
—Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) American Head of State, Lawyer
On the road between the homes of friends, grass does not grow.
—Norwegian Proverb
Be he a king or a peasant, he is happiest who finds peace at home.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German Poet
If you stay at home you won’t wear out your shoes.
—Yiddish Proverb
The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.
—G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English Journalist, Novelist, Essayist, Poet
You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.
—Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish Novelist
Only that traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher
A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home.
—Chinese Proverb
A lonely person is at home everywhere.
—Russian Proverb
What a fool he must be who thinks that his El Dorado is anywhere but where he lives.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher
Curses are like chickens; they come home to roost.
—Greek Proverb
The liar will travel the world over, but chooses not to go back home.
—Polish Proverb
Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
—Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British Head of State
Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
—Herman Melville (1819–91) American Novelist, Short Story Writer, Essayist, Poet
Without hearts there is no home.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) (1788–1824) English Romantic Poet
It is often more difficult to come back home than it is to go away.
—Chinese Proverb
Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
—D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Essayist, Literary Critic
A man’s home may be his castle on the outside; inside, it is more often his nursery.
—Clare Boothe Luce (1903–87) American Playwright, Diplomat, Journalist, Diplomat, Elected Rep
The family circle is the supreme conductor of Christianity.
—Henry Drummond
A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless.
—May Sarton (1912–95) American Children’s Books Writer, Poet, Novelist
It was the policy of the good old gentleman to make his children feel that home was the happiest place in the world; and I value this delicious home-feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow.
—Washington Irving (1783–1859) American Essayist, Biographer, Historian
However bright the sun may shine; leave not your cloak at home.
—Spanish Proverb
Every dog is a lion at home.
—Italian Proverb
There are things you just can’t do in life. You can’t beat the phone company, you can’t make a waiter see you until he’s ready to see you, and you can’t go home again.
—Bill Bryson (1951–95) American Humorist, Author, Educator
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
—Charles Caleb Colton (c.1780–1832) English Clergyman, Aphorist
I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
—Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American Poet
Home is where you can say anything you like cause nobody listens to you anyway.
—Unknown
Rather free in a foreign place than a slave back home.
—Norwegian Proverb