A dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

A PLACE for everything, and everything in its place

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  1640 G. HERBERT Outlandish Proverbs no. 379 All things have their place, knew wee how to place them. 1842 MARRYAT Masterman Ready II. i. In a well-conducted man-of-war.. every thing in its place, and there is a place for every thing. 1855 T. C. HALIBURTON Nature & Human Nature I. vi. There was a place for everything, and everything was in its place. 1928 D. L. SAYERS Lord Peter views Body x. ‘I thought you were rather partial to anatomical specimens.’ ‘So I am, but not on the breakfast-table. “A place for everything and everything in its place,” as my grandmother used to say.’ 2002 A. VANNEMAN Sherlock Holmes and Giant Rat of Sumatra ix. 80 The sailor’s apothegm —‘a place for everything, and everything in its place’—guided us, until at length everything was stowed away.. ■ orderliness
  

There’s no PLACE like home
Cf. HESIOD Works & Days l. 365 ■' •-'■■t?.¹. there’s no place like home.

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  1571 T. TUSSER Husbandry (rev. ed.) H1V Though home be but homely, yet huswife is taught, That home hath no fellow to such as haue aught. 1823 J. H. PAYNE Clari I. i. ‘Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home.’ 1939 E. F. BENSON Trouble for Lucia xi. ‘What a joy to have it back at Mallards again!’.. ‘No place like home is there, dear?’ 2002 Spectator 16 Mar. 26 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. ■ content and discontent; home
  

place see also LIGHTNING never strikes the same place twice; there is a TIME and place for everything; a WOMAN’S place is in the home.