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

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Food, Wine, Cooking

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

Benjamin Franklin

Inspirational, Smell, Cute Funny

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Go now, verses, on your light feet, you have not trodden hard on the old earth where the graves laugh when they see their guests, the one corpse stacked on top of the other. Go now and stagger to her whom I do not know.

Hugo Claus

Light, Feet, Laughing

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To be an ideal guest, stay at home.

E. W. Howe

New Year, Home, Ideals

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I had been doing plays in New York and on a whim we packed up and moved West, I started doing commercials and plays and guest star spots on TV and one thing led to another and I got Knots Landing.

Joan Van Ark

New York, Stars, Play

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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

Horse, Character, House

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

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We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.

Horace

Life, Inspire, Age

"Satires" by Horace, Book I, satire i, line 117, c. 35 BC and 30 BC.

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It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there.

Elsie de Wolfe

Happiness, Home, Men

Elsie De Wolfe (1975). “The house in good taste”, Ayer Co Pub

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

Khalil Gibran

House, Would Be, Hospitality

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Few enjoy noisy overcrowded functions. But they are a gesture of goodwill on the part of host or hostess, and also on the part of guests who submit to them.

Fannie Hurst

Gestures, Host, Function

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For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.

Alexander Pope

Sage, Welcome, Hospitality

'Imitations of Horace' Horace bk. 2, Satire 2 (1734) l. 159 ('speed the parting guest' in Pope's translation of The Odyssey (1725-6) bk. 15, l. 84)

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

William Feather

Home, House, Hotel

William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

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When I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.

John Harington

Cooking, Praise, Should

'Epigrams' (1618) bk. 1, no. 5 'Against Writers that Carp at Other Men's Books'

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The most important thing for having a party is that the hostess is having fun. I'm very organized. I make a plan for absolutely everything. I never have anything that has to be cooked while the guests are there. The only thing I might have to do is take something out of the oven and carve it.

Ina Garten

Fun, Party, Important

Interview with Lauren Salkeld, www.epicurious.com.

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

Anton Chekhov

People, House Guests, Sincere

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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

Host, Hospitality, Invisible

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And so, little by little, I gradually divested myself of pretty nearly all of the guest conducting I used to do, because I was at the same time working in the places like the Met, where I could work in this sort of depth.

James Levine

Depth, Littles, Used

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Love lodged in a woman's breast is but a guest.

Henry Wotton

Love, Relationship, Breasts

Walter Raleigh, Henry Wotton, J. Hannah (1929). “The Poems of Sir Walter Raleigh”, p.88, Рипол Классик

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To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself.

Joseph Joubert

Needs, Enjoy, Oneself

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It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave.

Homer

Hospitality, Offensive, Speed

Homer (1991). “The Odyssey”, Penguin Classics

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

Ambrose Bierce

Food, Cooking, Needs

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

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Fish and visitors stink in three days.

Benjamin Franklin

Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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

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Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.

Victor Borge

Funny, Christmas, Witty

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We show our adoration by going to visit Christ in the tabernacle or exposed in the monstrance. Would it not indeed be a failing in respect to neglect the divine Guest who awaits us? He dwells there, really present, He who was present in the crib, at Nazareth, upon the mountains of Judea, in the supper-room, upon the Cross. It is the same Jesus who said to the Samaritan woman, 'If thou didst know the gift of God!'

Columba Marmion

Jesus, Mountain, Rooms

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Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest.

William Butler Yeats

World, Tongue, Speed

William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.179, Wordsworth Editions

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