Home - Quotes and Proverbs

A house is not a home. Here are some proverbs and quotes about homes and houses.

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A home without a woman is like a barn without cattle.

A lonely person is at home everywhere.

Ah! there is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.

Jane Austen

Although the snake does not fly it has caught the bird whose home is in the sky.

An Englishman's home is his castle.

At home an Englishman feels safe and can do what he wants.

Away from home the girl picks forbidden fruit.

Better a stupid wife than a mess at home.

Better than a banquet somewhere else is a good cup of tea and a bowl of rice at home.

Charity begins at home.

Care for your own family before thinking of others.

Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.

Matsuo Basho

Go abroad and you'll hear news of home.

Happy is the home with at least one cat.

Home grown tomatoes, home grown tomatoes What would life be like without homegrown tomatoes? Only two things that money can't buy. That's true love and home grown tomatoes.

John Denver

Home is where the heart is.

Home is the place where your loved ones are.

Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst.

Marjorie Pay Hinckley

Homes among homes and grapevines among grapevines.

How does it feel?
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?

Bob Dylan

I came to your shore as a stranger, I lived in your home as a guest, I leave your threshold as a friend, my earth.

Rabindranath Tagore

I didn't think there was anything in the universe more important than homework.

J.K. Rowling
Source: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Quoted: Ron

I hate leaving home. I love what I do, but I'd love to go home every night.

Charlie Watts

I'm really quite simple. I plant flowers and watch them grow... I stay at home and watch the river flow.

George Harrison

If I take one more step it'll be the farthest away from home I've ever been.

J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: Movie: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

If you are eager to be in the shadow, leave your axe at home.

If you are going into the wood -- don't leave your axe at home.

In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

Woody Allen

It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.

Lewis Grizzard

Just a perfect day
Feed animals in the zoo
Then later a movie, too
And then home

Lou Reed
Source: Perfect Day Lyrics (Transformer Album)

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

Seneca

Men make houses, women make homes.

Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.

Gary Snyder

People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.

Dagobert D. Runes

Returning home is the most difficult part of long-distance hiking; You have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no longer fits.

Cindy Ross

Sing me back home before I die

Merle Haggard
Source: Lyrics: Sing Me Back Home

The idea of just sitting at home on Facebook worries me. I think we should all get out more.

Irvine Welsh

The moon rested right above the mountains, a place I call home.

Daniel Wallock

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.

John Muir