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
A woman’s place is in the home.
—Common Proverb
People usually are the happiest at home.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
Our country is where ever we are well off.
—John Milton (1608–74) English Poet, Civil Servant, Scholar, Debater
You cannot buy wisdom abroad if there is none at home.
—Russian Proverb
Curses are like chickens; they come home to roost.
—Greek Proverb
If you are going out for a fight leave your best hat at home.
—Japanese Proverb
A home is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. For human beings are not so constituted that they can live without expansion. If they do not get it in one way, they must in another, or perish.
—Margaret Fuller (1810–50) American Feminist, Writer, Revolutionary
Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
—Herman Melville (1819–91) American Novelist, Short Story Writer, Essayist, Poet
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
Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; the good, the true, the tender- these form the wealth of home.
—Sarah Josepha Hale (1788–1879) American Poet
Abroad we judge the dress; at home we judge the man.
—Chinese Proverb
Expanding and experiencing the mind is like coming home, while the former ‘home’ becomes more and more unimportant.
—Hans Taeger
One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.
—Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist
God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.
—French Proverb
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher
One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.
—Hermann Hesse (1877–1962) German-born Swiss Novelist, Poet
The family circle is the supreme conductor of Christianity.
—Henry Drummond
A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.
—Sydney Smith (1771–1845) English Clergyman, Essayist, Wit
Not the place where I was born but where I hang my hat is home.
—African 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
Seeking fish? Don’t dive in the pond; go home and get a net.
—Chinese Proverb
No one with a good catch of fish goes home by the back alley.
—Common Proverb
We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.
—Winston Churchill (1874–1965) British Leader, Historian, Journalist, Author
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
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
—Robert Frost (1874–1963) American Poet
Nothing annoys a woman more than to have company drop in unexpectedly and find the house looking as it usually does.
—Frank Lane (1896–1981) American Sportsperson, Businessperson
If you have a good cellar at home don’t go drinking at the tavern.
—Italian Proverb
Every house where love abides
And friendship is a guest,
Is surely home, and home, sweet home
For there the heart can rest.
—Henry van Dyke Jr. (1852–1933) American Author, Educator, Clergyman
He makes his home where the living is best.
—Latin Proverb
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