Guests Quotes
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Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Fish and visitors stink after three days. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend. (Quote by - Ward McAllister)
See, your guests approach. Address yourself to entertain them sprightly, And let's be red with mirth. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
No, truly, 'tis more than manners will; And I have heard it said, unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Sometimes, when guests have gone, the host remembers Sweet courteous things unsaid. We two have talked our hearts out to the embers, And now go hand in hand down to the dead. (Quote by - John Masefield)
House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad. (Quote by - Erma Bombeck)
Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick. (Quote by - African Proverb)
Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests. (Quote by - Max Beerbohm)
For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread. (Quote by - Rebecca H. Davis)
Hospitality, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911)
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Visits always give pleasure - if not the arrival, the departure. (Quote by - Portuguese Proverb)
I always feel that I have two duties to perform with a parting guest: one, to see that he doesn't forget anything that is his; the other, to see that he doesn't take anything that is mine. (Quote by - Alfred North Whitehead)
We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest. (Quote by - Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
In the end we're all Jerry Springer Show guests, really, we just haven't been on the show. (Quote by - Marilyn Manson)
Make your free men and guests sit as far as possible at tables on either side, not four here and three there. (Quote by - Robert Grosseteste)
If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also. (Quote by - Russian Proverb)
My table seats eight, so that's my maximum. Having a small number of guests is the only way to generate good conversation. Besides, your whole house doesn't get wrecked that way. (Quote by - Paul Lynde)
Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree. (Quote by - Karl Barth)
You must come home with me and be my guest; You will give joy to me, and I will do All that is in my power to honour you. (Quote by - Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Staying with people consists in your not having your own way, and their not having theirs. (Quote by - Maarten Maartens)
Gentle my lord, sleek o'er your rugged looks; Be bright and jovial among your guests to-night. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Hail, guest, we ask not what thou art; If friend, we greet thee, hand and heart; If stranger, such no longer be; If foe, our love shall conquer thee. (Quote by - Paul Elmer More)
Fish and visitors smell in three days. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Here is Mike Wallace, who is visible to the public, and I have been watching him since the early '50s. Smoking up a storm and insulting his guests and being absolutely wonderfully evil and charming too. (Quote by - Christopher Plummer)
Dessert is probably the most important stage of the meal, since it will be the last thing your guests remember before they pass out all over the table. (Quote by - William Powell)
For whom he means to make an often guest, One dish shall serve; and welcome make the rest. (Quote by - Bishop Joseph Hall)
If it were not for guests all houses would be graves. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
Very sorry can't come. Lie follows by post. (Quote by - Charles Beresford, telegram reply to a dinner invitation)
Here's our chief guest. If he had been forgotten, It had been as a gap in our great feast, And all-thing unbecoming. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
It's long been a cliche in Washington that if you hang a lamb chop in your window, guests will come. (Quote by - Suzanne Fields)
Santa Claus has the right idea: Visit people once a year. (Quote by - Victor Borge)
To the guests that must go, bid God's speed and brush away all traces of their steps. (Quote by - Sir Rabindranath Tagore)
When hospitality becomes an art, it loses its very soul. (Quote by - Max Beerbohm)
Few enjoy noisy overcrowded functions. But they are a gesture of goodwill on the part of host or hostess, and also on the part of guests who submit to them. (Quote by - Fannie Hurst)
Modern Carpet Designs may provide endless entertainment for your guests. (Quote by - William Heath Robinson)
Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends. (Quote by - Samuel Pepys)
Methinks a father Is at the nuptial of his son a guest That best becomes the table. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
A civil guest Will no more talk all, than eat all the feast. (Quote by - George Herbert)
Of the many guests we welcomed to the Mickey Mouse Club, my absolute favorites were the Lennon Sisters. (Quote by - Annette Funicello)
It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there. (Quote by - Elsie De Wolfe)
Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor's officers' mess and are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945. (Quote by - William Manchester)
Now, having had this experience, I can't say really what they were looking for. I don't know their minds. But every time I see a reality show, it seems that the most entertaining parts on other reality shows are when they make their guests look foolish. (Quote by - Liza Minnelliv
Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built. (Quote by - James Dobson)
