Quotes on guests
Santa Claus has the right idea: Visit people once a year.
Borge, Victor
If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also.
Proverb, Russian
Visits always give pleasure - if not the arrival, the departure.
Proverb, Portuguese
A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
McAllister, Ward
If it were not for guests all houses would be graves.
Gibran, Kahlil
Very sorry can't come. Lie follows by post.
Beresford, Charles
Hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even if you wish they were.
Unknown, Author
Fish and visitors smell in three days.
Franklin, Benjamin
Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick.
Proverb, African
We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
The ornaments of your house will be the guests who frequent it.
Unknown, Author
Staying with people consists in your not having your own way, and their not having theirs.
Maartens, Maarten
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.
Whitehead, Alfred North