Hospitality Quotes - Page 3

• Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly.

  Francis Atterbury

  Degenerates, Madness, Sometimes

  Francis Atterbury, Nitish K. Basu (1740). “A History of English Literature: The Norman conquest to the dawn of Renaissance & Geoffrey Chaucer”, p.105

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• The mother must set the example in holding out the shrine as the heart of the house hold! She must enforce discipline over the children in personal cleanliness in humility and hospitality, in good manners and acts of service.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Mother, Children, Humility

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• A semi-civilized state of society, equally removed from the extremes of barbarity and of refinement, seems to be that particular meridian under which all the reciprocities and gratuities of hospitality do most readily flourish and abound. For it so happens that the ease, the luxury, and the abundance of the highest state of civilization, are as productive of selfishness, as the difficulties, the privations, and the sterilities of he lowest.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Civilization, Luxury, Selfishness

  Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.227

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• For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas.

  Gerald R. Ford

  School, Men, Ideas

  United States. President (1974-1977 : Ford), Gerald R. Ford (1979). “Gerald R. Ford: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.

  Sam Walter Foss

  Friendship, Men, House

  Sam Walter Foss, “The House By The Side Of The Road”

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• The lintel low enough to keep out pomp and pride; The threshold high enough to turn deceit aside; The doorband strong enough from robbers to defend; This door will open at a touch to welcome every friend.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Strong, Pride, Doors

  Henry Van Dyke (1904). “Music, and Other Poems”

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• For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.

  Alexander Pope

  Sage, Guests, Welcome

  'Imitations of Horace' Horace bk. 2, Satire 2 (1734) l. 159 ('speed the parting guest' in Pope's translation of The Odyssey (1725-6) bk. 15, l. 84)

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• Drinking beer is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's rebellion.

  Alice Cooper

  Christian, Drinking, Beer

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• For the last 20 months, I've just been going from one hospital to another.

  June Carter Cash

  Lasts, Months, Hospitals

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• In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.

  Pat Summerall

  Inspirational, Basketball, Football

  "Pat Summerall: Gridiron, God, and Graham". Interview With Andrew Knox, www.cbn.com.

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• If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people,' you'd better live real close to a real good hospital.

  Neal Barnard

  Real, Animal, Rights

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• It is easier to have faith that God will support each House of Hospitality and Farming Commune and supply our needs in the way of food and money to pay bills, than it is to keep a strong, hearty, living faith in each individual around us - to see Christ in him.

  Dorothy Day

  Strong, House, Support

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• Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Life, Reading

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• Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

  Sophocles

  Inspirational, Learning, Knowledge

  "Women of Trachis". Play by Sophocles, Lines 592-593,

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• The learning and knowledge that we have,is,at the most,but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

  Plato

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Knowledge

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Inspirational, Education, Teenager

  "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut. Chapter 124: Frank's Ant Farm, 1963.

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• I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for.

  William Wycherley

  Men, People, Meat

  William Wycherley (2014). “The Country Wife”, p.136, A&C Black

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• I tried to make every bit of it as creepy as I could. And I had the same response you do. I feel the same way. The hospital scenes, that procedure was so real.

  William Peter Blatty

  Real, Creepy, Way

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. September 20, 2000.

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• How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Simple, Comfort, Earth

  'Aurora Leigh' (1857) bk. 3, l. 1121

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• I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn't like to.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, House, Half

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.31, Wordsworth Editions

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• It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed.

  Hugh Miller

  Thank You, Excellent, Circumstances

  Hugh Miller, William Samuel Symonds (1858). “The Cruise of the Betsy; Or, a Summer Ramble Among the Fossilferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist; Or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossilferous Deposits of Scotland. [Edited by W. S. Symonds.]”, p.133

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• I've got high standards when it comes to boys. As my dad says, all girls should! I'm from the South - Tennessee, to be exact - and down there, we're all about southern hospitality. I know that if I like a guy, he better be nice, and above all, my dad has to approve of him!

  Miley Cyrus

  Girl, Dad, Father

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• No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend's house. [Lat., Hospes nullus tam in amici hospitium diverti potest, Quin ubi triduum continuum fuerit jam odiosus siet.

  Plautus

  House, Three, Jam

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• It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed. In the thick of men it dwindles and disappears, life fruit in the thick of a wood; but where people are planted sparely it blossoms and matures, like apples on a standard or an espalier. It flourishes where the inn and lodging-house cannot exist.

  Hugh Miller

  Men, Apples, People

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• There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.

  Roger Staubach

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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