A House is not a Home.

-Adler, Polly
  Title of a book.

It's a man's joböno place for women's plans here!öwhat lies outside. Stay home and cause no trouble.

-Aeschylus
Septem contra Thebas, l.200^1 (translated by C M Dawson).

How different, how very different, from the home life of our own dear Queen!

-Anonymous
c.1892  Overheard from a member of the audience when Sarah Bernhardt appeared in the role of Cleopatra.

Hame's hame, be it never so hamely.

-Arbuthnot,John
  The History of  John Bull,'John Bull Still in His Senses', ch.3.

Oxus, forgetting the bright speed he had In his high mountain cradle in Pamere, A foiled circuitous wandererötill at last The longed-for dash of waves is heard, and wide His luminous home of waters opens, bright And tranquil, from whose floor the new-bathed stars Emerge, and shine upon the Aral Sea.

-Arnold, Matthew
  Poems:  A New Edition,'Sohrab and Rustrum', l.886^92.

Beautiful city! so venerable, so lovely, so unravaged by the fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene!†whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age† Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!

-Arnold, Matthew
  Of Oxford. Essays in Criticism First Series, preface.

We cannot help ourselves.We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.You are forced on exertion.You have always a profession, pursuits, business of some sort or other, to take you back into the world immediately, and continual occupation and change soon weaken impressions.

-Austen,Jane
  Of the difference between women and men. Persuasion, ch.23.

His Majesty's Government looks with favour upon the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jews.

-Balfour, ArthurJames Balfour, 1st Earl
  The Balfour Declaration, made in a letter to Lord Rothschild, 2 Nov.

Late at e'en, drinkin'the wine, And ere they paid the lawin', They set a combat them between, To fight it at the dawin'. 'O stayat hame, my noble lord, O stay at hame, my marrow! My cruel brother will you betray On the dowie houms o' Yarrow!'

-Ballads
'The Dowie Houms o' Yarrow'.

  Kiss till the cow comes home.

-Beaumont, Francis and Fletcher,John
c.1610  The Scornful Lady (published1616), act 2, sc.2.

De los libros el luminoso plectro dir|¤ase que pasa a ser l|¤a del recto, pues despue¤  s de tanto leer sin tasa nada ha quedado en casa. The luminous plectrum of books can be said to become a portion of the rectum, since after so much eager reading not a thing remains at home.

-Belli, Carlos Germa¤ n
  ‚Oh hada ciberne¤  tica!,'Cuando el seso tiene la altura de un grano de arena' ('When the brain is as high as a grain of sand').

   And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Samuel17:23.

They should go back home and re-create their countries whichwe have freed from tyranny, whether it be Kosovo or now Afghanistan. I have no sympathy whatsoever with young men in their twenties who do not get back home and rebuild their countries.

-Blunkett, David
  On asylum seekers,18 Sep.

  I am, I flatter myself, completely a citizen of the world. In my travels through Holland,Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Corsica, France, I never felt myself from home.

-Boswell,James
  Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (ed F  A Pottle,1936), entry for14  Aug.

  If I should die, thinkonly this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England. There shall be In that rich dust a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam, A body of England's, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.

-Brooke, Rupert Chawner
  'The Soldier'.

There are three things you just can't do in life.You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again.

-Bryson, Bill
  The Lost Continent, ch.2.

If you are as happy, my dear Sir, on entering this house as I am on leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in the country.

-Buchanan,James
Saidonwelcoming his successor,  Abraham Lincoln, to the White House.

From scenes like these, old S's grandeur springs, That makes her lov'd at home, rever'd abroad: Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, 'An honest man's the noble work of G'. See Pope 660:25.

-Burns, Robert
COTIAOD1785  'The Cotter's Saturday Night', stanza19. The last line is in fact a misquotation of Pope;'noble' was corrected to'noblest' in the1794 edition of Burns's poems.

Rattlin, roarin Willie, Ye're welcome hame to me!

-Burns, Robert
  'Rattlin, roarin Willie', stanza 3.

Where rose the mountains, there to him were friends; Where rolled the ocean, thereon was his home; Where a blue sky, and glowing clime, extends, He had the passion and the power to roam.

-Rochdale
^18  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto 3, stanza13.