“ When love came first to earth, the Spring Spread rose-beds to receive him. ”
- Thomas Campbell- Copy
“ I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns. ”
- John Jay Chapman- Copy
“ Ceremony was but devised at first to set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, recanting goodness, sorry ere 'Tis shown; but where there is true friendship, there needs none. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
“ You may go to Carlisle's, and to Almack's too; and I'll give you my head if you find such a host, for coffee, tea, chocolate, butter and toast; how he welcomes at once all the world and his wife, and how civil to folk he ne'er saw in his life. ”
- Christopher Anstey- Copy
“ It requires humility to stop moving and shaking long enough to be present to people. To allow someone to pull you in on the tractor beam of their gaze is to submit to that person. Taking long enough to hear the details of the whole truth impinges on our longing to get ahead in a me-first, look-out-for-number-one way of living… ”
- Jan Johnson- Copy
“ Each day offers us the gift of being a special occasion if we can simply learn that as well as giving, it is blessed to receive with grace and a grateful heart. ”
- Sarah Ban Breathnach- Copy
“ I want to thank you all for your e-mails and the words of support and encouragement yesterday. ”
- Barry Bonds- Copy
“ Tis sweet to hear the watchdog's honest bark Bay deep-mouth'd welcome as we draw near home. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
“ I've been to the Reading festival twice before-as a punter, though I stayed backstage in the hospitality tent! ”
- Bruce Dickinson- Copy
“ Peace often seems the one thing fair and desirable, so that the cloister or the forest, or the vessel on the lonesome sea, is the most grateful object of imagination. ”
- Charles Horton Cooley- Copy
“ Trouble will come soon enough, and when he does come receive him as pleasantly as possible… and the more amiably you greet him, the sooner he will go away. ”
- Artemus Ward- Copy
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