People are either born hosts or born guests.
Max Beerbohm
A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.
Friedrich von Schiller
If it were not for guests all houses would be graves.
Kahlil Gibran
If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also.
Russian Proverb
Visits always give pleasure - if not the arrival, the departure.
Portuguese Proverb
Visitor's footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick.
African Proverb
We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 Brault
Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone.
William Shakespeare
A pretty woman is a welcome guest.
Lord Byron
My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
You must come home with me and be my guest; You will give joy to me, and I will do All that is in my power to honour you.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sharing food and drink is one of the oldest rituals in the world. Whether a guest is offered a drink by the host or a special beverage in a special cup initiates an occasion, the moment is of significance.
Pamela Vandyke Price