Quotes and Sayings 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