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People are either born hosts or born guests. -- Max Beerbohm
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days. -- Benjamin Franklin
The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people. -- Tom Peters
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
We set up one rule in our house, which is, 'Guests of guests cannot bring guests.' That rule was required because that happened one weekend, and we finally said, 'Okay, you know what? That's a little too much.' -- Elizabeth Gilbert
Right now I am kicking around an idea to do a web talk show on a boat. Guests would come on and go fishing with me. I would like to take people who have never fished: You get them out on the water and they really open up. -- Tom Colicchio
Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui. -- Agnes Repplier
I've ended up feeling fonder of 'The Paying Guests' than of any of my other novels. -- Sarah Waters
Guests can be, and often are, delightful, but they should never be allowed to get the upper hand. -- Elizabeth Von Arnim
If you wou'd have Guests merry with your cheer, Be so your self, or so at least appear. -- Benjamin Franklin
Guests love to be 'wowed' in Las Vegas. They enjoy and embrace new tastes, new flavors, and they come to expect the unexpected in Las Vegas. -- Michael Mina
Never let 'em see you sweat. Guests feel guilty if they think you've worked too hard to make dinner for them - which of course you have! -- Ina Garten
Guests are people who come to your home to see you whine at the table, bark loudly, jump on women wearing pantyhose, and do other tricks which you wouldn't think of doing just for the family. -- Peg Kehret
the house protects the dreamer; the houses that are important to us are the ones that allow us to dream in peace. Guests we've had stop in for a night or two all come down the first morning, ready to tell their dreams. -- Frances Mayes
Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Anger should never be an overnight guest. -- Neal A. Maxwell
Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone. -- William Shakespeare
Christopher Guest movies are my top of the line favorites. -- Nina Blackwood
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest. -- Horace
I did a guest appearance on The Practice and loved it. -- Sharon Stone
A guest of one's time and not a member of the household. -- George F. Kennan
A civil guest Will no more talk all, than eat all the feast. -- George Herbert
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son. -- Evelyn Waugh
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. -- Alexander Pope
House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad. -- Erma Bombeck
Our profession is very much like going to a cocktail party, you check out the guest list. -- Robert Stack
This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. Welcome and entertain them all! -- Rumi
I mean, I can cook, but I'd get very nervous having my food being judged by dinner guests. -- Prabal Gurung
No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days. -- Plautus
Any celebration meal to which guests are invited, be they family or friends, should be an occasion for generous hospitality. -- Julian Baggini
To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest. -- William Butler Yeats
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
On the road we're somebody else's guests - and we play in a way that they're not going to forget we visited them. -- Knute Rockne
When I did the film Generations, in which the character died, I felt like a guest for the first time. That made me very sad. -- William Shatner
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
A recent Pew Hispanic survey found that more than 70 percent of illegal immigrants from Mexico are interested in a guest-worker program and then returning home. -- John Shadegg
Painting is still to a great extent dominated by a central image; corners in most cases are like uninvited guests at a party, uneasy and unattended. -- Harold Town
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
Dessert is probably the most important stage of the meal, since it will be the last thing your guests remember before they pass out all over the table. -- William Powell
It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else. -- Rachael Ray
We have developed overlays for the keys of the cash registers with the help of the Braille Institute, so that blind crew members can take orders and help our guests. -- Carl Karcher
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
I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought you were supposed to read the guests' books. -- Dick Cavett
Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor's officers' mess and are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945. -- William Manchester
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
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
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
I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I'm interviewing somebody, I'm getting a combination of fact and truth and self-mythology and self-delusion and selective memory and faulty memory. -- Terry Gross
When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my grandparents' boarding house in Waukegan, Illinois. Those were the years when Hugo Gernsback was publishing 'Amazing Stories,' with vivid, appallingly imaginative cover paintings that fed my hungry imagination. -- Ray Bradbury
When I do entertain, in the summer, which is rare, I receive my guests on the front porch, set up wicker trays found at Pottery Barn, and serve iced beverages. Anytime I do welcome friends, it's always a tray of canapes or Planters peanuts, jellied candy from Paris, and a good bottle of Sancerre. -- Andre Leon Talley
First and foremost I am a chef, whether behind the stove at one of my Northern California restaurants or for the past 15 years in front of the camera on my Food Network cooking shows. Creating new dishes and flavor combinations that bring cooks and our restaurant guests pleasure is my job and I love it. -- Tyler Florence
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When I was a kid, I was obsessed with this idea of opening a restaurant back in Indiana on a little pond. The guests would order their dinner and then take a little boat out with a colored flag on the front of it. When the matching color of the flag on their boat went up on a flag pole, their dinner was ready! -- Greg Kinnear
This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. -- Rumi
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
A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast -- Friedrich von Schiller
A guest and a fish after three days are poison -- Proverb
Objects of charity are not guests. -- Henry David Thoreau
Uninvited guests seldom meet a welcome. -- Aesop
The gods are fugitive guests of literature. -- Roberto Calasso
Don't lick the guests, darling. Bad manners. -- Patricia Briggs
We are guests in our patients' lives. -- Donald Berwick
The Church is a family expecting guests. -- Andy Stanley
Fish and guests in three days are stale. -- John Lyly
Uninvited guests are often most welcome when they leave -- Aesop
Gone are the birds that were our summer guests. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sleep is your friend. Dreams are your unwelcome guests. -- Anne Rice
Modern Carpet Designs may provide endless entertainment for your guests. -- W. Heath Robinson
Treat your family like guests and your guests like family. -- Judy Baer
Like the trees, we are visitors, guests of the earth. -- Kim Stafford
I always want my guests to be happy and impressed. -- Gail Simmons
If it were not for guests all houses would be graves. -- Khalil Gibran
For a host, above all, must be kind to his guests. -- Dr. Seuss
My favorite birthday game is Pin the Cleanup on the guests. -- Maxine
Come in. And try not to murder any of my guests. -- Cassandra Clare
He who would have fine guests, let him have a fine wife. -- Samuel Johnson
Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests. -- Max Beerbohm
A cocktail done right can really show your guests that you care. -- Danny Meyer
Like all guests, after a fortnight, grief is best beyond the door. -- Sandra Cisneros
True hospitality consists of giving the best of yourself to your guests. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Keeping one's guests supplied with liquor is the first law of hospitality. -- Margaret Way
I feel like women are frequently seen as guests in the comedy world.... -- Chelsea Peretti
Dreams are guests who ensoul our lives if we have hospitality for them. -- Jeannine Parvati Baker
The glasses were half full, which meant that the guests were completely so -- Guy de Maupassant
Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests. -- Sri Aurobindo
Food television opened the eyes, and palates, of our guests. They became more adventurous. -- Wolfgang Puck
I have 4 bedrooms in my house. 1 is for guests, the other 3 are for closets. -- Andre Leon Talley
I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy. -- Dick Cavett
One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests. -- Max Beerbohm
My dream dinner party guests would be Ethel Kennedy, Truman Capote and Hunter S. Thompson. -- Dylan Penn
No matter what time your guests arrive, pretend they're early, so naturally you're not ready. -- Phyllis Diller
When I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks. -- John Harington
How different a loved and familiar spot appears, when viewed with the eye of probable guests. -- Anne Bosworth Greene
I like when guests come over early and we chop veggies and talk and play music. -- John Stamos
I have an obsession for quality. I work for my guests, not to obtain Michelin stars. -- Alain Ducasse
People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them. -- Anton Chekhov
The most indispensable qualification of a cook is punctuality. The same must be said of guests. -- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Where the guests at a gathering are well-acquainted, they eat 20 per cent more than they otherwise would. -- E. W. Howe
In the end we're all Jerry Springer Show guests, really, we just haven't been on the show. -- Marilyn Manson
To the guests that must go, bid God's speed and brush away all traces of their steps. -- Rabindranath Tagore
Like when I host a party. I hope my guests get along. But if not, how interesting! -- Andy Cohen
Your baby only needs a lot of light at night if he's reading or he's entertaining guests. -- Lawrence Kutner
Of the many guests we welcomed to the Mickey Mouse Club, my absolute favorites were the Lennon Sisters. -- Annette Funicello
Things that are unsightly: birthmarks, infidelity, strangers in one's kitchen. Too much sunlight. Stitches. Missing teeth. Overlong guests. -- Catherynne M. Valente
The irrational may be attractive in the abstract, but not in cab drives, dinner guests, or elderly relatives. -- Mason Cooley
Pot lucks are fun, especially when you encourage your guests to bring dishes that represent their families or cultures. -- Marcus Samuelsson
People only watch my shows for me, and those shows have remained evergreen long after the guests are forgotten. -- Barry Humphries
If you're a sponsor, and you're doing business globally, to bring your guests to South Florida is pretty nice. -- Wayne Huizenga
I'm just very interested in what my guests have to say. You have to be vigilant to stay ignorant. -- Stephen Colbert
A choral dance: an attempt to impose upon a chance gathering of a few dozen guests a communal feeling. -- Curt Sachs
When you open the door and invite in all sentient beings as your guests, you have to drop your agenda. -- Pema Chodron
We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do. -- Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
I always like to think I'm having a dinner party, and I'm the host, and the audience are my guests. -- Caroline Rhea
Fancies were all very well for a change, but must be only occasional guests in a world devoted to reality. -- Walter de La Mare
The English dance unites the guests of an evening by the spell of rhythmical movement into a chance casual community. -- Curt Sachs
Love is a gracious host to his guests though to the unbidden his house is a mirage and a mockery. -- Khalil Gibran
The devils enter uninvited when the house stands empty. For other kinds of guests, you have to first open the door. -- Dag Hammarskjold
A mountaineer's house, before being his home and the home of his family, is the home of God and of guests. -- Ismail KadarÃ©
Afternoon tea should be provided, fresh supplies, with thin bread-and-butter, fancy pastries, cakes, etc., being brought in as other guests arrive. -- Isabella Beeton

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