Guests Quotes

Most popular guests quotes

We must not accept hospitality without making some return. - Laura Ingalls Wilder quote.
We must not accept hospitality without making some return.
Visitors should behave in such a way that the host and hostess feel at home.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson quote.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

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The guest is always right - even if we have to throw him out.
I will gladly lecture for fifty dollars, but I'll not be a guest for less than a hundred. - Elbert Hubbard quote.
I will gladly lecture for fifty dollars, but I'll not be a guest for less than a hundred.
Fish and visitors smell in three days. - Benjamin Franklin quote.
Fish and visitors smell in three days.
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. - Homer quote.
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
To be attentive to our guests is not only true kindness, but true politeness. - Abigail Adams quote.
To be attentive to our guests is not only true kindness, but true politeness.
After three days men grow weary of a wench, a guest, and rainy weather. - Benjamin Franklin quote.
After three days men grow weary of a wench, a guest, and rainy weather.
Fish and guests smell at three days old. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Fish and guests smell at three days old.

proverbs

If it were not for guests all houses would be graves. - Kahlil Gibran quote.
If it were not for guests all houses would be graves.
A guest should be permitted to graze, as it were, in the pastures of his host's kindness, left even to his own devices, like a rational being, and handsomely neglected.
House guests (I don't care who they are, how much I like them, or how long it's been since I last saw them) are pests, much like roaches and mice. But there are differences. You can trap roaches and mice. And they don't want you to drive them to Disneyland.
Fish and guests in three days are stale. - John Lyly quote.
Fish and guests in three days are stale.
No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days. - Plautus quote.
No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
Hostesses regarded her philosophically as a form of social measles which everyone had to have once. - Hector Hugh Munro quote.
Hostesses regarded her philosophically as a form of social measles which everyone had to have once.