We labor to make a house a home, then every time we're expecting visitors, we rush to turn it back into a house. (Quote by - Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com)

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)