quotes about Guests
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Existence is not itself a good thing, that we should spend a lifetime securing its necessaries: a life spent, however victoriously, in securing the necessaries of life is no more than an elaborate furnishing and decoration of apartments for the reception of a guest who is never to come. Our business here is not to live, but to live happily.
-- A. E. Housman -
Humanism is the philosophy that you should be a good guest at the dinner table of life.
-- A.C. Grayling -
Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
-- Agnes Repplier -
Any album that you pick up of mine, you know it's an Akon album. The guests are very limited, and you get to really feel the experience. You get the Akon experience when you get the albums. I always want to make sure that stays the way it is. I don't want to flood the album to where you lose focus on why you bought it.
-- AkonSource : Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. November 12, 2008.
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For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.
-- Alexander Pope -
Don't be bothered by troubles because they are generally guests we ourselves invite - they will stay for some time and then leave
-- Amit Abraham -
I have 4 bedrooms in my house. 1 is for guests, the other 3 are for closets.
-- Andre Leon Talley -
Like when I host a party. I hope my guests get along. But if not, how interesting!
-- Andy Cohen -
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I seem to myself, as in a dream, Am accidental guest in this dreadful body.
-- Anna Akhmatova -
How different a loved and familiar spot appears, when viewed with the eye of probable guests.
-- Anne Bosworth Greene -
Sleep is your friend. Dreams are your unwelcome guests.
-- Anne Rice -
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Of the many guests we welcomed to the Mickey Mouse Club, my absolute favorites were the Lennon Sisters.
-- Annette Funicello -
If a guest in your lair annoys you, treat him cruelly and without mercy.
-- Anton Szandor LaVey -
We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.
-- Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of LodsworthSource : Attributed in A Dictionary of Environmental Quotations, ed. Barbara K. Rodes and Rice Odell (1992)
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When you guest-star, you're usually at the center of the dramatic arc, so that's fun.
-- Bellamy YoungSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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There's fierce competition between all the networks to get the guest who can bring the most pertinent information about whatever the story of the moment happens to be.
-- Bob Schieffer -
I can't even tell you how many different shows I would love to guest star on because there's just too many.
-- Brian Dietzen -
I always like to think I'm having a dinner party, and I'm the host, and the audience are my guests.
-- Caroline Rhea -
It is a great, a pleasant thing to have a friend with whom to walk, untroubled, through the woods, by the stream, saying nothing, at peace--the heart all clean and quiet and empty, ready for the spirit that may choose to be its guest.
-- Catherine Drinker BowenSource : Catherine Drinker Bowen (1939). “Friends and fiddlers”
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The guest is always right - even if we have to throw him out.
-- Charles Ritz -
I feel like women are frequently seen as guests in the comedy world....
-- Chelsea Peretti -
Care, admitted as guest, quickly turns to be master.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
Father expected a good deal of God. He didn't actually accuse God of inefficiency, but when he prayed his tone was loud and angry, like that of a dissatisfied guest in a carelessly managed hotel.
-- Clarence Day -
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Negative emotions are like unwelcome guests. Just because they show up on our doorstep doesn't mean they have a right to stay.
-- Deepak Chopra -
We are guests in our patients' lives.
-- Donald BerwickSource : "Patient Reviews: Putting Doctors on the Examining Table" by Mark Britton, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 24, 2011.
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Whenever someone makes out a guest list, the people not on it become officially uninvited, and that makes them the enemies of the invited. Guest lists are just a way of choosing sides.
-- E. L. Konigsburg -
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And as pale sickness does invade, Your frailer part, the breaches made, In that fair lodging still more clear, Make the bright guest, your soul, appear.
-- Edmund Waller -
I will gladly lecture for fifty dollars, but I'll not be a guest for less than a hundred.
-- Elbert Hubbard -
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 -
Courtesy demands that you, when you are a guest, shall show neither annoyance nor disappointment--no matter what happens.
-- Emily Post -
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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 -
The only occasion when the traditions of courtesy permit a hostess to help herself before a woman guest is when she has reason to believe the food is poisoned.
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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
-- Evelyn Waugh -
Few enjoy noisy overcrowded functions. But they are a gesture of goodwill on the part of host or hostess, and also on the part of guests who submit to them.
-- Fannie Hurst -
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Misery is a guest that we are glad to part with, however certain of her speedy return.
-- Fanny BurneySource : Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.3775, Delphi Classics
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Continued focus on (employee) turnover is of critical importance, because of the direct relation of turnover to improvements in labor costs and guest satisfaction.
-- Finley Peter Dunne -
Commercials and sometimes other guests - it's the down side of TV. Other people - it's the downside of life in general.
-- Fran Lebowitz -
You are a guest of nature - behave.
-- Friedensreich Hundertwasser -
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If man walks in nature's midst, then he is nature's guest and must learn to behave as a well-brought-up guest.
-- Friedensreich Hundertwasser -
A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.
-- Friedrich Schiller -
I always want my guests to be happy and impressed.
-- Gail Simmons -
You know it's funny that none of the regular late-night shows now use guest hosts the way Johnny did. No one talks about it much, but it's curious that they don't do it. They would each have to be asked the reason why they don't.
-- Garry Shandling -
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A guest of one's time and not a member of the household.
-- George F. Kennan -
The New York Times published the guest list on the front page. The masks were a brilliant concept.
-- George Plimpton -
When a guest blogger can't even be bothered sharing their own post on their social networks; they're pretty much admitting 'I don't care about this post, and I don't want to be associated with it'. In the end these guests posts are just another form of spam.
-- George Stevens -
When you are invited to a dinner, you are either a guest or you are part of a menu
-- Guy Verhofstadt -
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The soul on earth is an immortal guest.
-- Hannah MoreSource : Hannah More (1801). “The Works of Hannah More ...: Including Several Pieces Never Before Published”, p.380
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Painting is still to a great extent dominated by a central image; corners in most cases are like uninvited guests at a party, uneasy and unattended.
-- Harold Town -
I'm sure the next time Piers Morgan asks me to host his show again I will ask President Obama to be my guest.
-- Harvey Weinstein -
By insisting on having your bottle pointing to the north when the cork is being drawn, and calling the waiter Max, you may induce an impression on your guests which hours of laboured boasting might be powerless to achieve. For this purpose, however, the guests must be chosen as carefully as the wine.
-- Hector Hugh Munro -
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Tomorrow is the mysterious, unknown guest.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
To-morrow! the mysterious, unknown guest, Who cries to me: "Remember Barmecide, And tremble to be happy with the rest." And I make answer: "I am satisfied; I dare not ask; I know not what is best; God hath already said what shall betide.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
Love lodged in a woman's breast is but a guest.
-- Henry WottonSource : Walter Raleigh, Henry Wotton, J. Hannah (1929). “The Poems of Sir Walter Raleigh”, p.88, Рипол Классик
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It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave.
-- Homer -
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It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go.
-- Homer -
A mountaineer’s house, before being his home and the home of his family, is the home of God and of guests.
-- Ismail Kadaré -
I always wanted to be a Muppet. So when 'Sesame Street' approached me to guest star, I thought: 'I'm going to be on this!' It's pretty incredible stuff.
-- James BluntSource : "This much I know" by Johnny Davis, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2008.
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And so, little by little, I gradually divested myself of pretty nearly all of the guest conducting I used to do, because I was at the same time working in the places like the Met, where I could work in this sort of depth.
-- James Levine -
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My appearance was always good and my ability to play on the piano, especially ragtime, which was then at the height of its vogue, made me a welcome guest.
-- James Weldon Johnson -
Golfers are genuinely courteous in a discourteous world. Show me a guest on The Jerry Springer Show who's a golfer.
-- James Woods -
The most indispensable qualification of a cook is punctuality. The same must be said of guests.
-- Jean Anthelme Brillat-SavarinSource : Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Leonard Francis Simpson (1859). “The handbook of dining, based chiefly upon the Physiologie du goût of Brillat-Savarin”, p.7
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Dreams are guests who ensoul our lives if we have hospitality for them.
-- Jeannine Parvati Baker -
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I do favor guest workers, H1B visas and student visas.
-- Jim Kolbe -
I don't mind doing occasional guest appearances on shows, but I have other things I'd like to do in my life now.
-- Jodi SweetinSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
I can certainly see that you know your wine. Most of the guests who stay here wouldn't know the difference between Bordeaux and Claret.
-- John Cleese -
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When I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.
-- John HaringtonSource : 'Epigrams' (1618) bk. 1, no. 5 'Against Writers that Carp at Other Men's Books'
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I don't do a lot of guest shots on television.
-- John Larroquette -
Fish and guests in three days are stale.
-- John LylySource : John Lyly (1916). “Euphues”
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A recent Pew Hispanic survey found that more than 70 percent of illegal immigrants from Mexico are interested in a guest-worker program and then returning home.
-- John Shadegg -
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Business owners have made a strong case to me that they need guest workers. But none has suggested that these workers should be placed on a path to citizenship.
-- John Shadegg -
I like when guests come over early and we chop veggies and talk and play music.
-- John Stamos -
I went to Broadway and I've been doing some fun guest spots with 'Entourage' and 'Glee' and I'm ready to have my own show.
-- John Stamos -
'21 Jump Street' is great. I just made that, and produced it and was a writer on it. It's starring myself and Channing Tatum, and maybe some surprise guests.
-- Jonah Hill -
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Basher shook his head. "No, we climbed in through a ground-floor guest bedroom all ninja-like. Snuck up the back stairs." "Then you might be the cavalry," said Tom, "but I'm Santa Claus. Let's go downstairs and open some presents.
-- Jonathan Maberry -
Conversation is but carving! Give no more to every guest Than he's able to digest.
-- Jonathan Swift -
A true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what the guests fling away, and consequently is apt to snarl most when there are the fewest bones.
-- Jonathan Swift -
For whom he means to make an often guest, One dish shall serve; and welcome make the rest.
-- Joseph Hall -
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To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself.
-- Joseph Joubert -
Jesus is a divine guest inside of you all the time - one who loves, understands, sees and hears you. He wants to live in oneness with you... to be the centerpiece of everything you do.
-- Joyce Meyer -
It is a widespread and firm belief among guests that their departure is always a matter of distress to their hosts, and that in order to indicate that they have been pleasantly entertained, they must demonstrate an extreme unwillingness to allow the entertainment to conclude. This is not necessarily true.
-- Judith Martin -
Any celebration meal to which guests are invited, be they family or friends, should be an occasion for generous hospitality.
-- Julian Baggini -
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When the Guest is being searched for, it is the intensity of the longing for the Guest that does all the work. Look at me, and you will see a slave of that intensity.
-- Kabir -
When you feel most alive, find out why, This is one guest you won't greet twice.
-- Kabir -
I ended up living at OJ's because Nicole bought a home that no longer had a guest house. OJ offered his guest house to me. Anybody in LA looking for a place knows the best places to live are guest houses.
-- Kato Kaelin -
Like the trees, we are visitors, guests of the earth.
-- Kim Stafford -
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Making a long stay short is a great aid to popularity.
-- Kin Hubbard -
I think it's a very strange question that I have to defend myself. I don't feel that. You are all my guests, it's not the other way around, that's how I feel.
-- Lars von Trier -
We're all working hard, but so far away from what we actually want to be doing. We're all peering in at the window of a party we aren't invited to yet, a party we wouldn't know how to dress for, or what kind of conversation to make, even if we came as someone's guest.
-- Lauren Graham -
I prefer to leave standing up, like a well-mannered guest at a party.
-- Leontyne PriceSource : "Kanye, Miley and the death of the diva" by LZ Granderson,, www.cnn.com. October 10, 2013.
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Always remember to set a place at the table of life for the unexpected guest.
-- Linda Ellerbee -
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.
-- Louise Imogen GuineySource : Louise Imogen Guiney (1885). “Goose-quill Papers”
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I'm a really good dinner party guest. I am always so appreciative, impressed that anyone has even managed to turn on the oven and cook for me.
-- Lucy PunchSource : "Q & A With Lucy Punch: Woody Allen's New Film, Eating Geographically and Why Offal Is Off-Limits". Interview with Margy Rochlin, www.laweekly.com. September 20, 2010.
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I always did TV commercials and made great money to put myself through school. That became guest starring roles on TV shows.
-- Malin Akerman -
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Keeping one's guests supplied with liquor is the first law of hospitality.
-- Margaret Way -
Southerners have been known to stay over the Fourth and not get home before Thanksgiving. Some oldtimers take in overnight guests and keep them through three generations.
-- Mary Ellen Snodgrass -
Guest blogging is probably the sort of thing that you should be thinking about doing in moderation.
-- Matt Cutts -
People are either born hosts or born guests.
-- Max Beerbohm -