Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.
—John le Carre (1931–2020) English Spy Thriller Novelist
Affairs of the home should not be discussed in the public square.
—African Proverb
There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
—Jane Austen (1775–1817) English Novelist
Where I make a living, there is my home.
—African Proverb
Earth is but a marketplace; heaven is home.
—African Proverb
We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher
An empty house is like a stray dog or a body from which life has departed.
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902) British Victorian Novelist, Essayist, Critic
Home is the place where we are treated the best, but grumble the most.
—Unknown
There is no happiness in life, and there is no misery, like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home.
—Edwin Hubbell Chapin (1814–80) American Preacher, Poet
Better a stupid wife than a mess at home.
—African Proverb
It matters less to a person where they are born than where they can live.
—Turkish Proverb
A king’s castle is his home.
—Common Proverb
Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb—or Dome of Worm—or Porch of Gnome—or some Elf’s Catacomb?
—Emily Dickinson (1830–86) American Poet
No worldly success can compensate for failure in the home.
—David O. McKay (1873–1970) American Religious Leader, Educator
On the road between the homes of friends, grass does not grow.
—Norwegian Proverb
Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home; and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house.
—Bruce Fairchild Barton (1886–1967) American Author, Advertising Executive, Politician
The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.
—Juvenal (c.60–c.136 CE) Roman Poet
A lonely person is at home everywhere.
—Russian Proverb
The hunter who always comes home with meat is a thief.
—African Proverb
If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
—William Morris (1834–96) British Designer, Craftsman, Poet, Writer
You can’t appreciate home till you’ve left it, money till it’s spent, your wife till she’s joined a woman’s club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.
—O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) (1862–1910) American Writer of Short Stories
He who travels a lot becomes wise; he who is wise stays home.
—Chinese Proverb
Home—that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel’s wings.
—Lydia Maria Child (1802–80) American Abolitionist, Writer
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher
Abroad we judge the dress; at home we judge the man.
—Chinese Proverb
Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters?
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher
No place is more delightful than one’s own fireside.
—Cicero (106BCE–43BCE) Roman Philosopher, Orator, Politician, Lawyer
There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.
—Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) German Poet, Dramatist
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
The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.
—Kin Hubbard (1868–1930) American Cartoonist, Humorist
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