
ProverbWisdom
English origin1853
Home is home, be it ever so homely.
Meaning: Comfort and belonging matter more than outward appearance or grandeur.
Origin: A humble home is still home. The journalist Henry Mayhew used the saying in 1853, and Kenneth Grahame quoted it in The Wind in the Willows (1908). It echoes the line from John Howard Payne's song "Home! Sweet Home!" (1823): "Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home."
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