Cf. [Hesiod Works & Days l. 365] οἴκοί βέλṯɛρον ɛἶναί, there's no place like home.
Though home be but homely, yet huswife is taught, That home hath no fellow to such as haue aught.
[1571 T. Tusser Husbandry (rev. ed.) H1V]
‘Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.’
[1823 J. H. Payne Clari i. i.]
‘What a joy to have it back at Mallards again!’‥‘No place like home is there, dear?’
[1939 E. F. Benson Trouble for Lucia xi.]
And then there is the tortoise who refused to come to Zeus' party, arguing that there was no place like home. So Zeus angrily condemned him to carry his house with him wherever he went.
[2002 Spectator 16 Mar. 26]
Related to: content and discontent; home
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