House Guests Quotes:

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

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

topic: Two, House Guests, Forget

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

- Confucius

topic: House, Leaving, House Guests

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

- Anton Chekhov

topic: People, House Guests, Sincere, Parting, Speeding

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

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Inspirational, Smell, Cute Funny, Fish Tanks, Uninvited Guests

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

topic: Spiritual, Wisdom, Morning, Inspirational Sufi, Sufi Love

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

topic: Sweet, Home, Heart, Sweet Home, Where Home Is

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

- Max Beerbohm

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

topic: Art, Soul, Hospitality, House Guests

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

- Khalil Gibran

topic: House, Would Be, Guests, House Guests

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

- Plautus

topic: Friendship, Travel, House, House Guests

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

- Max Beerbohm

topic: Class, Two, Guests, House Guests

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

- Margaret Way

topic: Law, Guests, Firsts, House Guests

Fish and visitors stink in three days.

- Benjamin Franklin

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

topic: House Guests

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

- Ambrose Bierce

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

topic: Food, Cooking, Needs, House Guests

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Ice Cream, House, Dare, Sweets And Desserts, Ice Cream Sundae

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

topic: Home, House, Guests, Housework, House Guests

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

- William Feather

topic: Home, House, Guests, House Guests

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

topic: Guests, Cleaning, Advantage, Housekeeping, House Cleaning

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

topic: Important, Guests, Tables, House Guests

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

- Ward McAllister

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

topic: Dinner, Sacred, Accepted, Executors, Dinner Guests

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

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

topic: Horse, Character, House, Bad Character, House Guests

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

topic: Kids, Parenting, Swag, House Guests

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

- Erma Bombeck

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

topic: Long, House, Literature, House Guests

There's such a gulf between yourself and who you were then, but people speak to that other person and it answers; it's like having a stranger as a house guest in your skin.

- Barbara Kingsolver

source: Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “Animal Dreams: A Novel”, p.40, Harper Collins

topic: People, House, Skins, House Guests

Guests stay where you've put them, and carry on doing whatever you suggested they do, until you suggest they stop and do something else. If you leave them drinking a cup of tea and looking through your holiday slides, they're supposed to sit tight till you ask them to come and string beans in your kitchen.

- Anne Fine

topic: Drinking, Holiday, Kitchen, House Guests

Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.

- Karl Barth

topic: Christian, Tree, House, House Guests

House guests (I don't care who they are, how much I like them, or how long it's been since I last saw them) are pests, much like roaches and mice. But there are differences. You can trap roaches and mice. And they don't want you to drive them to Disneyland.

- Margo Kaufman

topic: Differences, Long, House, House Guests

His [Rudolph Giuliani] marital life became unhinged with his wife kicking him out of the mayor`s residence of Gracie mansion. That he took up residence as a house guest in an apartment owned by friends of his.The friends were a loving gay couple. And that is the best thing I know about Rudy Giuliani.

- Lawrence O'Donnell

topic: Couple, Gay, Wife, Gay Couples, Rudolph

None of my songs are written 'about' someone or something, they all just sort of tumble out unannounced, like the worst kind of house guest.

- St. Lucia

topic: Song, House, Guests, House Guests

The only way to permanently install a new habit is to direct so much energy toward it that the old one slips away like an unwelcome house guest.

- Robin Sharma

source: FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Dec 02, 2013

topic: House, Energy, Guests, Unwelcome, New Habits

Mindfulness is developing an awareness of the thoughts and feelings that we move through without getting drawn into the meanings or taking action or getting sucked into the story. Like house guests, eventually they all leave. We become more attuned to being a container for those things and less identified with them.

- Barnet Bain

source: "Eckhart Tolle & Barnet Bain on Bringing Mindfulness to the Movies". ORIGIN Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Moving, House, Feelings, Containers, House Guests