Home Quotes

  • 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
  • A woman’s place is in the home. ~ Traditional Proverb
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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. ~ 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 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
  • Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest. ~Robert Montgomery
  • 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 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
  • If you’re going home, you don’t get wet. ~ African 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
  • 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
  • There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. ~ Jane Austen
  • There’s no place like home. ~ English 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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