“Try building a house, and try arranging a wedding.”
Tamil Proverb
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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.
“A fool is honoured in his own house, a chief in his village, a king in his country, but a learned man is honoured everywhere.”
Sanskrit Saying
KnowledgeRespect
“Like the washerman's dog, belonging neither to the house nor to the riverbank.”
Hindi Proverb
BelongingFunny
“Home affairs are not talked about on the public square.”
African Proverb
PrivacyFamily
“Those who never cared to welcome guests will one day lament: 'We laboured to amass our wealth, and now we are forlorn.'”
Thiruvalluvar
HospitalityRegret
“Even to an enemy who comes to your house, hospitality should be shown; a tree does not withdraw its shade from the one who comes to cut it.”
The Hitopadesha
HospitalityKindness
“Home's not merely four square walls, though with pictures hung and gilded; home is where affection calls, filled with shrines the heart hath builded.”
Charles Swain
LovePoetry
“Cultivate virtue in your family, and its virtue will be abundant.”
Lao Tzu
VirtueFamily
“Blessed is the householder whose home is full of joy, whose children are talented, and whose spouse speaks sweetly.”
Chanakya
Happy HomeFamily
“Poverty in the midst of plenty is the neglect of guests; it is found only in fools.”
Thiruvalluvar
HospitalityGenerosity
“If household excellence be wanting in the wife, however splendid it may be, all is worthless in that life.”
Thiruvalluvar
Family LifeVirtue
“What does a home lack if the wife is virtuous? What does it have if she is not?”
Thiruvalluvar
MarriageFamily Life
“A worthy wife is the blessing of a home, and good children are its jewels.”
Thiruvalluvar
FamilyBlessings
“What man is there that hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated it?”
The Bible (Deuteronomy 20:5)
HousewarmingBlessings
“And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.”
The Bible (Deuteronomy 6:9)
FaithFamily
“In the house of the righteous is much treasure.”
The Bible (Proverbs 15:6)
BlessingsRighteousness
“As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.”
The Bible (Proverbs 27:8)
BelongingWisdom
“And when ye come into an house, salute it.”
The Bible (Matthew 10:12)
BlessingsCourtesy
“Bring the poor that are cast out to thy house.”
The Bible (Isaiah 58:7)
CompassionHospitality
“And we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.”
The Bible (John 14:23)
Divine PresenceFaith
“Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.”
The Bible (Romans 12:13)
HospitalityGenerosity
“Use hospitality one to another without grudging.”
The Bible (1 Peter 4:9)
HospitalityKindness
“Lord, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.”
The Bible (Psalm 26:8)
WorshipLove
“Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.”
The Bible (Luke 9:58)
HomelessnessFaith
“He came unto his own, and his own received him not.”
The Bible (John 1:11)
RejectionFaith