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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)