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We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.

Barbara Ward

Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.

People are either born hosts or born 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

But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.

Bible

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

Kahlil Gibran

Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone.

William Shakespeare

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Anton Chekhov

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

Erma BomBeck

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

Sir Max Beerbohm

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

To the guests that must go, bid God's speed and brush away all traces of their steps.

Rabindranath Tagore

Our people, though capable of strong and durable feeling, were not demonstrative in their affection at any time, least of all in the presence of guests or strangers.

Charles Eastman

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

To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.

Max Beerbohm

If you look at the media now all of the hosts of these other shows are interviewing themselves. The guests are a prop for the hosts on these cable networks. The guests for me are always the paramount.

Larry King

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dr. James C. Dobson

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Tom Peters

Hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even if you wish they were.

Unknown

Some steam process should be invented for arranging guests when they are above five hundred.

Benjamin Disraeli

Sometimes, when guests have gone, the host remembers Sweet courteous things unsaid. We two have talked our hearts out to the embers, And now go hand in hand down to the dead.

John Masefield

For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread.

Rebecca H. Davis

We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.

Jeff Bezos