Guests Quotes - Page 6
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
Homer (1991). “The Odyssey”, Penguin Classics
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.338
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
Of the feeling of being viewed as a pragmatist. Quoted in Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas The WiseMen (1986).
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 ...”
Calvin Trillin (1984). “Third Helpings”, Viking Press
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)