A dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

HOME is home, as the Devil said when he found himself in the Court of Session
The Court of Session is the supreme civil tribunal of Scotland, established in 1532.

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  1832 W. MOTHERWELL in A. Henderson Scottish Proverbs lxix. Nothing more bitter was ever uttered .. against our Supreme Court of Judicature, than the saying .. Hame is hamely, quo’ the Deil, when he fand himself in the Court of Session. 1915 J. BUCHAN Salute to Adventurers iv. I saw nothing now to draw me to .. law. .. ‘Hame’s hame,’ runs the proverb, ‘as the devil said when he found himself in the Court of Session,’ and I had lost any desire for that sinister company. "law and lawyers
  

HOME is home though it’s never so homely
The archaic phrase never so means ‘ever so’.

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  1546 J. HEYWOOD Dialogue of Proverbs I. iv. B1 Home is homely, though it be poore in syght. 1569-70 Stationers’ Register (1875) 1.192 A ballett intituled home ys homelye be yt neuer so ill. 1670 J. RAY English Proverbs 103 Home is home though it be never so homely. 1857 DICKENS Little Dorrit II. ix. ‘Just as Home is Home though it’s never so Homely, why you see,’ said Mr. Meagles, adding a new version to the proverb, ‘Rome is Rome though it’s never so Romely.’ 1915 J. WEBSTER Dear Enemy 46 Hame is hame, be’t ever sae hamely. Don’t you marvel at the Scotch? ■ content and discontent;
  

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HOME is where the heart is

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  1870 J. J. MCCLOSKEY in Goldberg & Heffner Davy Crockett & Other Plays (1940) 79 ‘As I am to become an inmate of your home, give me a sort of a panoramic view.’ .. ‘Well, home, they say, is where the heart is.’ 1950 H. M. GAY Pacific Spectator IV. 91 ‘Home is where the heart is,’ she said, ‘if you’ll excuse the bromide [trite remark].’ 1979 K. BONFIGLIONI After You with Pistol xxi. ‘Where is “home”, please,’ I asked. .. ‘Home’s where the heart is,’ he said. ■ content and discontent; home
  

home see also CHARITY begins at home; CURSES, like chickens, come home to roost; EAST, west, home’s best; an ENGLISHMAN’S house is his castle; GO abroad and you’ll hear news of home; the LONGEST way round is the shortest way home; there’s no PLACE like home; a WOMAN’S place is in the home; many go out for WOOL and come home shorn.