Home quotes
Abroad we judge the dress; at home we judge the man.~ Chinese Proverb
Affairs of the home should not be discussed in the public square.~ Kenyan Proverb
A home without a woman is like a barn without cattle.~ Ethiopian Proverb
A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home.~ Chinese Proverb
A king’s castle is his home.~ Traditional Proverb
A lonely person is at home everywhere.~ Russian Proverb
Although the snake does not fly it has caught the bird whose home is in the sky.~ Nigerian Proverb
An Englishman’s home is his castle.~ Traditional Proverb
At home saints never perform miracles.~ Brazilian Proverb
Away from home the girl picks forbidden fruit.~ Bantu Proverb
Away from home they look at your clothes. At home they look at what is under them. ~ Chinese Proverb
A woman’s place is in the home.~ Traditional Proverb
Be a lion at home and a fox abroad.~ Iranian Proverb
Better a stupid wife than a mess at home.~ Togolese Proverb
Better be kind at home than burn incense in a far place.~ Chinese Proverb
Better than a banquet somewhere else is a good cup of tea and a bowl of rice at home.~ Japanese Proverb
Charity begins at home.~ Traditional Proverb
Curses are like chickens; they come home to roost.~ Greek Proverb
Do not stay too long when the husband is not home.~ Japanese Proverb
Earth is but a marketplace; heaven is home.~ West African Proverb
East, west, home’s best.~ Traditional Proverb
Every dog is a lion at home.~ 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
God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.~ French Proverb
He is guilty who is not at home.~ Ukranian Proverb
He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He makes his home where the living is best.~ Latin Proverb
He who cannot pray at home will celebrate mass somewhere else.~ Armenian Proverb
He who travels a lot becomes wise; he who is wise stays home.~ Chinese Proverb
He who wants to be happy must stay at home.~ Greek Proverb
Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest. ~Robert Montgomery
Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to. ~ John Ed Pearce
Home is a shelter from storms - all sorts of storms. ~ William J. Bennett
Home is not where you live but where they understand you. ~ Christian Morgenstern
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in. ~ Robert Frost
Home is where you can say anything you like cause nobody listens to you anyway. ~ Author Unknown
However bright the sun may shine, leave not your cloak at home.~ Spanish Proverb
If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.~ Traditional Proverb
If the dog is not at home, he barks not.~ Senegalese Proverb
If you’re going home, you don’t get wet.~ African Proverb
If you are going into the wood — don’t leave your axe at home.~ Thai Proverb
If you are going out for a fight leave your best hat at home.~ Japanese Proverb
If you find your friend on the sofa at home with your wife, you had better sell the sofa.~ Yiddish Proverb
If you have a good cellar at home don’t go drinking at the tavern.~ Italian Proverb
If you love your son, make him leave home.~ Japanese Proverb
If you stay at home you won’t wear out your shoes.~ Yiddish Proverb
It is at home, not in public, that one washes his dirty linen.~ French Proverb
It is often more difficult to come back home than it is to go away.~ Chinese Proverb
It takes hands to build a house, but only hearts can build a home. ~ Author Unknown
Life is a temporary stop, death is the journey home.~ Vietnamese Proverb
Light your lamp first at home and after wards at the mosque.~ Islamic Proverb
Living is worthless for one without a home.~ Ethiopian Proverb
No one with a good catch of fish goes home by the back alley.~ Traditional 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
Peace - that was the other name for home. ~ Kathleen Norris
Rather free in a foreign place than a slave back home.~ Norwegian Proverb
Seeking fish? Don’t dive in the pond; go home and get a net.~ Chinese Proverb
The brave person regards dying as going home.~ Chinese Proverb
The cock goes to town for only four days and returns home a peacock.~ Indian Proverb
The hunter who always comes home with meat is a thief.~ Bantu Proverb
The liar will travel the world over, but chooses not to go back home.~ Polish Proverb
The longest road out is the shortest road home.~ Irish Proverb
There’s no place like home.~ English Proverb
There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. ~ Jane Austen
The sun at home warms better than the sun away.~ Albanian Proverb
The wise man and the tortoise travel but never leave their home.~ Chinese Proverb
The wise traveler leaves his heart at home.~ African Proverb
Truth is always homeless.~ Danish Proverb
Truth seldom finds a home.~ Belgian Proverb
What the child says, he has heard at home.~ Nigerian Proverb
When we are at our happiest, then it is best to leave and go home.~ Czech Proverb
Where I make a living, there is my home.~ Somali Proverb
Where there is no wife, there is no home.~ Yugoslavian Proverb
Where we love is home, Home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Who asks at once for a lot, returns home with an empty bag.~ Yugoslavian Proverb
Who is timid in the woods boasts at home.~ Thai Proverb
Who knows the language is at home everywhere. ~ Dutch Proverb
You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it’s all right. ~ Maya Angelou
You cannot buy wisdom abroad if there is none at home.~ Russian Proverb
You travel on until you return home; you live on until you return to earth.~ Ethiopian Proverb

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