Quotes of Guest - somelinesforyou

“ One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests. ”

- Max Beerbohm

“ People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them. ”

- Anton Chekhov

“ A civil guest will no more talk all, than eat all the feast. ”

- George Herheri

“ A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast. ”

- Johann Friedrich von Schiller

“ A guest never forgets the host who had treated him kindly. ”

- Homer

“ Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not annoy his host after three days. ”

- Thomas Brackett Reed

“ Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest. ”

- Kin Hubbard

“ To be an ideal guest, stay at home. ”

- Edgar Watson Howe

“ 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! ”

- Unknown

“ Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests. ”

- Max Beerbohm

“ It's long been a cliche in Washington that if you hang a lamb chop in your window, guests will come. ”

- Suzanne Fields

“ Quite a nasty piece of work. Not the sort of person you'd want to have dinner with. ”

- Rowan Atkinson

“ It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go. ”

- Homer

“ The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine. ”

- Marcus Terentius Varro

“ It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave. ”

- Homer

“ No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days. ”

- Thomas Brackett Reed

“ We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest. ”

- Horace

“ A hotel isn't like a home, but it's better than being a house guest. ”

- William Feather

“ That's the secret of entertaining. You make your guests feel welcome and at home. If you do that honestly, the rest takes care of itself. ”

- Barbara Hall

“ A pretty woman is a welcome guest. ”

- Lord Byron

“ And did you think that such a guest Would in thy hall take up his rest? — High gifts ask diviner guess: Not to be conned to tediousness. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest. ”

- Goethe

“ After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ Gratitude is a twofold love — love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest. ”

- Henry Van Dyke

“ If I remember right there are five excuses for drinking: the visit of a guest, present thirst, future thirst, the goodness of the wine, and any other excuse you choose! ”

- Pete Sermond

“ 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. ”

- Elsie De Wolfe

“ Number one: Don't frisk me. Don't hurt me physically. Don't get anywhere near my neck. And don't call me Regis. ”

- David Letterman

“ The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest. ”

- Jean de la Bruyere
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