House Guests Quotes

• Every house guest brings you happiness. Some when they arrive, and some when they are leaving

  Confucius

  House, Leaving, Guests

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• Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Smell, Cute Funny

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• Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Friendship, Thank You

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “The Guest House”

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• Every house where love abides
  And friendship is a guest,
  Is surely home, and home sweet home
  For there the heart can rest.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Sweet, Home, Heart

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The works of Henry Van Dyke”

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• This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Morning

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “The Guest House”

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• When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

  Max Beerbohm

  Art, Soul, Hospitality

  Max Beerbohm (2006). “And Even Now”, p.91, 1st World Publishing

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• If it were not for guests all houses would be graves.

  Khalil Gibran

  House, Would Be, Guests

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

  Plautus

  Friendship, Travel, House

  "Miles Gloriosus". Play by Titus Maccius Plautus, Act III, scene 1, line 146,

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

  Max Beerbohm

  Two, Class, Might

  And Even Now (1920) "Hosts and Guests"

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• Keeping one's guests supplied with liquor is the first law of hospitality.

  Margaret Way

  Law, Firsts, Hospitality

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• Fish and visitors stink in three days.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Benjamin Franklin, Bessie W. Johns (comp) (1942). “Poor Richard comes to Life”

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• HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Food, Cooking, Needs

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.14, University of Georgia Press

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• We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ice Cream, House, Dessert

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.133, Рипол Классик

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• This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. Welcome and entertain them all!

  Rumi

  Morning, House, Guests

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.150, Penguin UK

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• We labor to make a house a home, then every time we're expecting visitors, we rush to turn it back into a house.

  Robert Breault

  Home, House, Guests

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

  William Feather

  Home, House, Guests

  William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

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• 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.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Two, Forget, Duty

  Alfred North Whitehead (1954). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”

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• The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Guests, Cleaning, Advantage

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

  Anton Chekhov

  People, Sincere, Meetings

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• Dessert is probably the most important stage of the meal, since it will be the last thing your guests remember before they pass out all over the table.

  William Powell

  Important, Lasts, Meals

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• The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in.

  Rumi

  Dark, Doors, Laughing

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.150, Penguin UK

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• A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.

  Ward McAllister

  Dinner Guests, Sacred, Accepted

  Ward McAllister (1890). “Society as I Have Found it”

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• When any one of our relations was found to be a person of a very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one we desired to get rid of, upon his leaving my house I ever took care to lend him a riding-coat, or a pair of boots, or sometimes a horse of small value, and I always had the satisfaction of finding he never came back to return them.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Horse, Character, House

  Oliver Goldsmith (1828). “The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale ...”, p.7

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• Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, 'A house guest,' you're wrong because I have just described my kids.

  Erma Bombeck

  Kids, Parenting, Swag

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• House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.

  Erma Bombeck

  Long, House, Literature

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist”, p.297, Open Road Media

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