There's no place like home
Meaning: Home is where you feel most comfortable.
Origin: From "Home! Sweet Home!", written by the American actor John Howard Payne for the opera Clari, or the Maid of Milan (1823): "Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home." The song was one of the great hits of the 19th century. L. Frank Baum's Dorothy repeats the phrase in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), and the 1939 film made it the words that carry her back to Kansas.
Equivalents in French, Spanish, Japanese, and German
- French: Rien ne vaut son chez-soi (literally: Nothing is worth one's home)
- Spanish: Hogar, dulce hogar (literally: Home, sweet home)
- Japanese: 住めば都 (Sumeba miyako) (literally: Where you live becomes the capital)
- German: Eigener Herd ist Goldes wert (literally: One's own hearth is worth gold)
More proverbs about Human Nature
- You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink — You can offer help, but you can't force someone to accept it.
- Misery loves company — Unhappy people seek others who are also suffering.
- Out of sight, out of mind — We tend to forget things or people we don't see.
- A cat has nine lives — Cats (or resilient people) survive many dangerous situations.
- All's fair in love and war — Normal rules don't apply in romance or conflict.
- A friend in need is a friend indeed — True friends show their worth during difficult times.
From our idioms
- Медвежья услуга (Medvezhya usluga) — Help that actually makes things worse.
- Тянуть кота за хвост (Tyanut' kota za khvost) — To procrastinate; to drag something out.
- Делать из мухи слона (Delat' iz mukhi slona) — To blow things way out of proportion.