“Nothing is sweeter than a man's own country and his parents, even though he dwell far off in a rich home.”
Homer
HomelandParents
Home Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · HOME
Home Quotes
Read the best home quotes on family, belonging, homeland and hospitality from Homer, Ovid, Li Bai, Thiruvalluvar, Goldsmith, Tulsidas and more. Words that feel like home.
“What is more agreeable than one's home?”
Cicero
ComfortShort Quotes
“East or West, home is best.”
English Proverb
BelongingShort Quotes
“It takes a heap o' livin' in a house t' make it home.”
Edgar Guest
House And HomeMemories
“If love and virtue in the household reign, this is of life the perfect grace and gain.”
Thiruvalluvar
LoveFamily
“I raise my head and gaze at the bright moon; I lower my head and think of home.”
Li Bai
HomesicknessPoetry
“Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad.”
George Herbert
ContentmentBelonging
“Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never allows us to forget that we belong to it.”
Ovid
HomelandBelonging
“Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, his first, best country ever is at home.”
Oliver Goldsmith
HomelandPatriotism
“Do not go to a home where eyes do not light up at your coming, even if it rains gold there.”
Tulsidas
RespectWelcome
“No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful.”
L. Frank Baum
BelongingComfort
“Wherever a man is well off, there is his home.”
Latin Proverb
ContentmentBelonging
“Day by day I long to reach my home and see the day of my return.”
Homer
HomecomingLonging
“I left home young and return old; my accent unchanged, my hair grown thin. The children see me but do not know me; smiling, they ask where the stranger is from.”
He Zhizhang
HomecomingAgeing
“Alone, a stranger in a strange land, I miss my family doubly on every festival day.”
Wang Wei
HomesicknessFestivals
“Even in Kyoto, hearing the cuckoo's cry, I long for Kyoto.”
Matsuo Basho
LongingPoetry
“Homeward bound I go! Why not go home, seeing that my field and garden with weeds are overgrown?”
Tao Yuanming
HomecomingSimple Living
“If man in active household life a virtuous soul retain, what can he further seek from other ways of life to gain?”
Thiruvalluvar
Family LifeVirtue
“Where women are honoured, there the gods rejoice.”
Manusmriti
RespectWomen
“A family in harmony will prosper in everything.”
Chinese Proverb
HarmonyFamily
“There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife.”
Homer
MarriagePartnership
“First of all, get a house, and a woman, and an ox for the plough.”
Hesiod
Ancient WisdomFunny
“Happy is he who, far from business, like the race of men of old, tills his ancestral fields with his own oxen.”
Horace
Simple LivingCountryside
“Nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul.”
Marcus Aurelius
Inner PeaceStoicism
“Travel and change of place impart new vigour to the mind.”
Seneca
TravelRenewal
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About Home Quotes
Home is more than four walls and a roof. It's where we feel safe, where the people we love are waiting, and where we can finally be ourselves. Whether it's a small flat, a family house or the village we grew up in, home is the place our hearts return to, no matter how far we travel.
This collection brings together 200 of the best home quotes from poets, philosophers and traditions around the world, including Homer, Ovid, Li Bai, Thiruvalluvar, Oliver Goldsmith and Tulsidas. Some celebrate the comfort of home, some honour our homeland, and some are about the warmth of welcoming guests. For more on the people who make a house a home, explore our [Family Quotes](/topics/family-quotes).
Frequently asked questions
Quick answers about Home quotes.
What is a famous quote about home?
"East or West, home is best" is one of the best-known sayings. Edgar Guest added that "it takes a heap o' livin' in a house t' make it home."
What is a good quote about missing home?
The Chinese poet Li Bai wrote, "I raise my head and gaze at the bright moon; I lower my head and think of home." It's one of the most famous poems in China.
What does the Thirukkural say about home life?
Thiruvalluvar devoted a chapter to household life. He wrote that if love and virtue reign in a home, it is life's "perfect grace and gain."
What are good quotes about welcoming guests?
Thiruvalluvar wrote that "a guest's heart withers at a cold look," and the Spanish say, "My house is your house." Tulsidas warned against visiting a home where people aren't glad to see you.
What did Homer say about home?
In the Odyssey, Homer wrote that nothing is sweeter than one's own country and parents, even for someone living in a rich home far away.
What are good short home quotes?
Try "East or West, home is best," "My house is your house," "Your own hearth is worth gold," or "One's own home is the best home."