Guests Quotes

• The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

  Khalil Gibran

  Courage, House, Lust

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.54, Lulu.com

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• 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

  Two, House Guests, Forget

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

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• 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 Harding Davis

  May, Tables, Thanksgiving Inspirational

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• Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Beauty, Welcome, Cheerfulness

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2000). “Selected Works: Including The Sorrows of Young Werther, Elective Affinities, Italian Journey, Faust”, Everyman's Library

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• She and my uncle were very sociable and would have a lot of people over at night to play cards or whatever. The high spot of those evenings was when we kids got dressed up to do a skit or something to amuse the guests. I loved it.

  Louise Fletcher

  Uncles, Kids, Night

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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 Alexander Eastman

  Strong, People, Feelings

  Charles Alexander Eastman (2010). “Living in Two Worlds: The American Indian Experience Illustrated”, p.31, World Wisdom, Inc

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• 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.

  James Dobson

  Children, Father, Home

  James C. Dobson (1991). “How to Raise Children That Love the Lord”, Chariot Family Pub

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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

  Competition, Stories, Information

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• A guest of one's time and not a member of the household.

  George F. Kennan

  Time, Members, Household

  Of the feeling of being viewed as a pragmatist. Quoted in Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas The WiseMen (1986).

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• We wanted to interview people on the show, do variety, get the artists, the guests involved with us in our group. They wanted to keep the four guys together. We wanted to change the format.

  Davy Jones

  Artist, People, Guy

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• Our profession is very much like going to a cocktail party, you check out the guest list.

  Robert Stack

  Party, Cocktails, Cocktail Parties

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• 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

  Kids, Parenting, Swag

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• 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

  Christian, House, Tree

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• Enforcement is the long overdue step to protect our Nation from external threats in a time of war. And then once we do that, we can effectively discuss a guest worker program.

  J. D. Hayworth

  War, Long, Enforcement

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

  Max Beerbohm

  Humility, Virtue, Innate

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.69, New York Review of Books

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

  Max Beerbohm

  Two, Class, Might

  And Even Now (1920) "Hosts and Guests"

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• I do like to live in other people's homes. I enjoy being a guest. I am an inexpensive guest. When one lives in another's home he can enter into the psychic kingdom of that person.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Home, Psychics, People

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• People are either born hosts or born guests.

  Max Beerbohm

  People, Host, Born

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• The main prank that we play with props is for people's birthdays. The special effects people will put a little explosive in the cake so it blows up in their face - that's always fun to play on a guest star, or one of the trainees or someone who's new.

  Catherine Bell

  Birthday, Stars, Fun

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Success, Jobs, Business

  "Online Extra: Jeff Bezos on Word-of-Mouth Power". Interview with Robert D. Hof, www.bloomberg.com. August 2, 2004.

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• Making a long stay short is a great aid to popularity.

  Kin Hubbard

  Long, Popularity, Aids

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• I think that curiosity happened on these reviews where I was just a guest of the reviewer, because it introduced me to new cuisines and to the idea of cooking as a mechanism for studying other cultures and understanding other parts of the world.

  Ted Allen

  Thinking, Ideas, Other Cultures

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Sweet, Home, Heart

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The works of Henry Van Dyke”

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• This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. Welcome and entertain them all!

  Rumi

  Morning, House, Welcome

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.150, Penguin UK

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• When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

  Max Beerbohm

  Art, Soul, House Guests

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

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