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Guests Quotes - Page 6

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

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

For whom he means to make an often guest, One dish shall serve; and welcome make the rest.

Joseph Hall (1839). “The Works of Joseph Hall: Miscellaneous works; Poetical works: Appendix; indices, etc”, p.195

A civil guest Will no more talk all, than eat all the feast.

George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.13

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

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

Now what is a guest? A thing of a day! A person who disturbs your routine and interferes with important concerns. Why should any one be grateful for company? Why should time and money be lavished on visitors? They come. You overwork yourself. They go. You are glad of it. You return the visit, because it's the only way to have back at them.

Gene Stratton-Porter (2016). “Gene Stratton-Porter Collection: A Girl of the Limberlost, Freckles, Laddie, The Harvester, A Daughter of the Land, At the Foot of the Rainbow, Her Fatther's Daughter, Michale O'Halloran”, p.1074, Xist Publishing

I will gladly lecture for fifty dollars, but I'll not be a guest for less than a hundred.

Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...”

If you wou'd have Guests merry with your cheer, Be so your self, or so at least appear.

Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.22, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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

'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)