“The household life rightly bears true virtue's name; that other too, if blameless found, is good as well.”
Thiruvalluvar
Family LifeVirtue
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.
“This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.”
William Shakespeare
HomelandPatriotism
“The sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, she stood in tears amid the alien corn.”
John Keats
HomesicknessPoetry
“The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, and leaves the world to darkness and to me.”
Thomas Gray
EveningPoetry
“For the truth is, that to the moderately poor the home is the only place of liberty.”
G. K. Chesterton
FreedomComfort
“All household cares and course of daily life have this in view, guests to receive with courtesy, and kindly acts to do.”
Thiruvalluvar
HospitalityKindness
“Though nectar's self were in the house, it would not be fit to eat it alone while a guest waits outside.”
Thiruvalluvar
HospitalitySharing
“The Anicham flower fades when it is smelled; a guest's heart withers at a cold look.”
Thiruvalluvar
HospitalityKindness
“My house is your house.”
Spanish Proverb
HospitalityShort Quotes
“There's no fireside like your own fireside.”
Irish Proverb
ComfortBelonging
“May the road rise to meet you. May the wind be always at your back.”
Irish Blessing
BlessingsJourney
“Your own hearth is worth gold.”
German Proverb
Home ValueShort Quotes
“One's own home is the best home.”
Latin Proverb
BelongingShort Quotes
“Every dog is a lion at home.”
Italian Proverb
ConfidenceFunny
“Who daily tends the coming guest, his household life shall never suffer from poverty.”
Thiruvalluvar
HospitalityBlessings
“To anchorites, to indigent, to those who've passed away, the man with household ties is needful help and stay.”
Thiruvalluvar
Family DutySupport
“The manes, God, guests, kindred, self, in due degree, these five to cherish well is chiefest charity.”
Thiruvalluvar
DutyFamily
“Who shares his meal with others, while all guilt he shuns, his virtuous line unbroken through the ages runs.”
Thiruvalluvar
SharingLegacy
“In nature's way who spends his calm domestic days, 'mid all that strive for virtue's crown hath foremost place.”
Thiruvalluvar
Family LifePeace
“Who shares domestic life, by household virtues graced, shall, mid the Gods in heaven who dwell, be placed.”
Thiruvalluvar
Family LifeBlessings
“She is the true helpmate of the home who has its virtues and spends within its means.”
Thiruvalluvar
HomemakingWisdom
“Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee.”
The Bible (Genesis 12:1)
New BeginningsFaith
“This day is salvation come to this house.”
The Bible (Luke 19:9)
BlessingFaith
“Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee.”
The Bible (Mark 5:19)
HomecomingGratitude
“We have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.”
The Bible (2 Corinthians 5:1)
Eternal HomeFaith