Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
Samuel Pepys
Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone.
William Shakespeare
Very sorry can’t come. Lie follows by post.
Charles Beresford
Love lodged in a woman’s breast, Is but a guest.
Henry Wotton, Sr.
Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.
Kin Hubbard
When thou must home to shades of underground, / And there arrived, a new admir�d guest, / The beauteous spirits do engirt thee round, / White Iope, blithe Helen, and the rest.
Thomas Campion
A guest never forgets the host who had treated him kindly.
Homer
To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself.
Joseph Joubert
I will gladly lecture for fifty dollars, but I’ll not be a guest for less than a hundred.
Elbert Hubbard
And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, That he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner.
Bible
Fish and visitors smell in three days.
Benjamin Franklin
When executing advertising, it’s best to think of yourself as an uninvited guest in the living room of a prospect who has the magical power to make you disappear instantly.
John O’Toole
A guest has not to thank the host, but the host the guest.
Russian Proverb
A civil guest / Will no more talk all, than eat all the feast.
George Herbert
Every guest hates the others, and the host hates them all.
Albanian Proverb
A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
Ward McAllister
[One sometimes feels] a guest of one’s time and not a member of its household.
George F. Kennan
Hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even if you wish they were.
Author Unknown
Like an overnight guest, you shall arise and depart in the morning. Why are you so attached to your household? It is all like flowers in the garden.
Sri Guru Granth Sahib
Santa Claus has the right idea: Visit people once a year.
Victor Borge
O Wedding-Guest! this soul hath been / Alone on a wide wide sea; / So lonely ’twas that God himself / Scarce seem�d there to be.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The art of being a good guest is to know when to leave.
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
For I, who hold sage Homer’s rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.
Alexander Pope
What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?
Aeschylus
Visitor’s footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick.
African Proverb
A daily guest is a thief in the kitchen.
Proverb
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
If it were not for guests all houses would be graves.
Kahlil Gibran
Seven days is the length of a guest’s life.
Burmese Proverb
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 Brault
Hostesses will usually divide their guest list between those who shoot the birds and those who shoot the breeze.
Caroline Hunter
Winter, a bad guest, sitteth with me at home; blue are my hands with his friendly handshaking.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Gratitude is a twofold love / love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest.
Henry Van Dyke
A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.
Friedrich von Schiller
If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also.
Russian Proverb
The good guest is almost invisible, enjoying him or herself, communing with fellow guests, and, most of all, enjoying the generous hospitality of the hosts.
Emily Post
Staying with people consists in your not having your own way, and their not having theirs.
Maarten Maartens
Friend, hope for the Guest while you are alive.
Jump into experience while you are alive!
Think…and think… while you are alive.
Kabir
A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison.
Francis Bacon, Sr.
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
Evelyn Waugh
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
The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host, and then a master.
Kahlil Gibran
Staying with people consists in your not having your own way, and their not having theirs.
Maarten Maartens
Hospitality, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.
Ambrose Bierce
When my grave is broke up again / Some second guest to entertain.
John Donne
Visits always give pleasure – if not the arrival, the departure.
Portuguese Proverb
I think the dying pray at the last not please but thank you as a guest thanks his host at the door.
Annie Dillard
To be a successful hostess, when guest arrive say, ”At last!” and when they leave say, ”So soon!”
Thank you, been on the road for a week and this was the first place I felt at home and unpacked. It was fun, you guys do a nice job.
When the chairman introduced the guest speaker as a former illegal alien, I got up from my chair and yelled, “What’s the matter, no jobs on Mars?” When no one laughed, I was real embarrassed. I don’t think people should make you feel that way.
Jack Handy
You two should pat yourselves on the back for making someone feel so much at home. I’ll be back!
No guest is so welcome in a friend’s house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
Titus Maccius Plautus
The ornaments of your house will be the guests who frequent it.
Author Unknown