Guests Quotes

The first day a man is a guest, the second a burden, the third a pest.
Edouard Rene Lefebure Laboulaye

The art of being a good guest is to know when to leave.
Prince Philip

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

To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself.

People are either born hosts or born guests.

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.

A civil guest will no more talk all, than eat all the feast.
George Herheri

Every guest hates the others, and the host hates them all.
Albanian Proverb

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

If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also.

Visits always give pleasure - if not the arrival, the departure.

Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick.

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

We labor to make a house a home, then every time we're expecting visitors, we rush to turn it back into a house.

Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone.

A pretty woman is a welcome guest.

My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.

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

Visitors are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not visit, would do nothing.

Santa Claus has the right idea: Visit people once a year.

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

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

Staying with people consists in your not having your own way, and their not having theirs.
Maarten Maartens







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