Quotes about home
The hearth, the doorstep and the pull of the place you come from. Quotes about home for housewarmings, homecomings and travel posts.
The library has 409 quotes on this topic. Here are 60 of the most quoted, no more than four from any one writer.
60 quotes about home
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You take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life When you do take the means whereby I live.
William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice, Act iv. Sc. 1 -
Type of the wise who soar but never roam, True to the kindred points of heaven and home.
William Wordsworth To a Skylark -
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his own home.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Such is the patriot’s boast, where’er we roam,—His first, best country ever is at home.
Oliver Goldsmith The Traveller, Line 73 -
Adieu! adieu! my native shore Fades o’er the waters blue.
Lord Byron Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto i. Stanza 13 -
Be just and fear not; Let all the ends thou aim’st at be thy country’s, Thy God’s, and truth’s.
William Shakespeare Henry VIII, iii. 2 -
Stay, stay at home, my heart, and rest; Home-keeping hearts are happiest, For those that wander they know not where Are full of trouble and full of care; To stay at home is best.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Song -
One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation evermore!
Oliver Wendell Holmes Voyage of the Good Ship Union -
Domestic happiness, thou only bliss Of Paradise that has survived the fall!
William Cowper The Task, Book iii. The Garden. Line 41 -
Let not him who is homeless pull down the house of another.
Abraham Lincoln December 27 -
The wild lands of the country should be distributed so that every man should have the means and opportunity of benefiting his condition.
Abraham Lincoln April 19 -
This country, with all its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.
Abraham Lincoln July 1 -
’Tis sweet to hear the watch-dog’s honest bark Bay deep-mouth’d welcome as we draw near home; ’Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark Our coming, and look brighter when we come.
Lord Byron Don Juan, Canto i. Stanza 123 -
Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee,—Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears, Our faith triumphant o’er our fears, Are all with thee,—are all with thee!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Building of the Ship -
I love my country’s good, with a respect more tender, more holy and profound, than my own life.
William Shakespeare Coriolanus -
With these animals does no man reach the untrodden country, where a tamed man goes on a tamed animal, viz. on his own well-tamed self.
The Buddha Dhammapada, v. 323 · translated by F. Max Müller -
The Patagonians open oysters and throw the shells out of the window—until the pile gets higher than the house; then they move.
Abraham Lincoln June 12 -
Ay, now am I in Arden: the more fool I. When I was at home I was in a better place; but travellers must be content.
William Shakespeare As You Like It, Act ii. Sc. 4 -
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Francis Bacon Essays -
We are not miserable without feeling it. A ruined house is not miserable. Man only is miserable. Ego vir videns.
Blaise Pascal Pensées, No. 399 · translated by W. F. Trotter -
Houses are built to live in more than to look on; therefore let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.
Francis Bacon Essays -
An heir finds the title-deeds of his house. Will he say, “Perhaps they are forged?” and neglect to examine them?
Blaise Pascal Pensées, No. 217 · translated by W. F. Trotter -
The man who works at home helps society at large with somewhat more of certainty than he who devotes himself to charities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Solitude -
The household is the home of the man as well as of the child.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Solitude -
At the working man’s house hunger looks in, but dares not enter.
Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard’s Almanack -
God made the country, and man made the town; What wonder then, that health and virtue, gifts That can alone make sweet the bitter draught That life holds out to all, should most abound And least be threatened in the fields and groves.
William Cowper The Task, Bk. I.: The Sofa -
Think of the country mouse and of the town mouse, and of the alarm and trepidation of the town mouse.
Marcus Aurelius Meditations, Book XI.22 · translated by George Long -
Every spirit makes its house, but afterwards the house confines the spirit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Conduct of Life -
Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.
Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote, Part ii. Chap. xxxvii -
How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home!
William Cowper The Progress of Error, Line 415 -
Producing him in public in the theatre, he said to the astonished Spartans:—“I received this young man at your hands full of violence and wanton insolence; I restore him to you in his right mind and fit to serve his country.”
Epictetus Golden Sayings, No. LXXXVIII · translated by Hastings Crossley -
The accent of our native country dwells in the heart and mind as well as on the tongue.
François de La Rochefoucauld Maxims, Maxim 342 · translated by J. W. Willis Bund and J. Hain Friswell -
Home is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse.
George Bernard Shaw Maxims for Revolutionists -
The accent and character of one’s native country dwells in the mind and heart as on the tongue.
François de La Rochefoucauld Maxims (supplement), Supplement, XCIV · translated by J. W. Willis Bund and J. Hain Friswell -
Let us look at home. For seventy years peace and industry have had their way among us with less interruption and under more favourable conditions than in any other country on the face of the earth.
Thomas Henry Huxley Aphorisms and Reflections, No. CCLXXVII -
The first sure symptom of a mind in health Is rest of heart, and pleasure felt at home.
Edward Young Night Thoughts, Night VIII. DR -
He serves his party best who serves the country best.
Rutherford B. Hayes Inaugural Address, March 5, 1877 -
Herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses.
John Milton L’Allegro, Line 85 -
How dear is fatherland to all noble hearts.
Voltaire -
That in our proper motion we ascend Up to our native seat: descent and fall To us is adverse.
John Milton Paradise Lost, Book ii. Line 75 -
And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.
William Wordsworth Guilt and Sorrow, Stanza 41 -
I am as homeless as the wind that moans And wanders through the streets.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
Understanding: a cerebral secretion that enables one having it to know a house from a horse by the roof on the house. Its nature and laws have been exhaustively expounded by Locke, who rode a house, and Kant, who lived in a horse.
Ambrose Bierce The Devil’s Dictionary -
To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife,—That’s the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
Robert Burns Epistle to Dr. Blacklock -
Sworn to no master, of no sect am I; As drives the storm, at any door I knock, And house with Montaigne now, and now with Locke.
Alexander Pope -
How can it be that one who hath nothing, neither raiment, nor house, nor home, nor bodily tendance, nor servant, nor city, should yet live tranquil and contented?
Epictetus Golden Sayings, No. CXIV · translated by Hastings Crossley -
Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.
Bible (World English Bible) John, 14:1–2 -
A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.
Oscar Wilde Miscellaneous Aphorisms -
Ada! sole daughter of my house and heart.
Lord Byron Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto iii. Stanza 1 -
One always reads history to most advantage in that country to which it is relative, not only books but persons being ever at hand to solve the doubts and clear up difficulties.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Letters to His Son -
Come home to men’s business and bosoms.
Francis Bacon Dedication to the Essays, Edition 1625 -
Forc’d from their homes, a melancholy train, To traverse climes beyond the western main; Where wild Oswego spreads her swamps around, And Niagara stuns with thundering sound.
Oliver Goldsmith The Traveller, Line 409 -
Forc’d from their homes, a melancholy train, To traverse climes beyond the western main.
Oliver Goldsmith Traveller, Line 409 -
Sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Building of the Ship -
The city is recruited from the country.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: Second Series -
I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.
Daniel Webster Speech, July 17, 1850. P. 437 -
His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock, it never is at home.
William Cowper Conversation, Line 303 -
A noble man cannot be indebted for his culture to a narrow circle. The world and his native land must act on him.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
We leave the confines of our native country and our delightful plains.
Virgil -
Be more careful to keep the doors of your heart shut than the doors of your house.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe