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Hospitality should have no other nature than love. -- Henrietta Mears
When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul. -- Max Beerbohm
Hospitality exists when you believe that the other person is on your side. -- Danny Meyer
Hospitality is almost impossible to teach. It's all about hiring the right people. -- Danny Meyer
The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse. -- Charles Horton Cooley
Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place. -- Henri Nouwen
Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart. -- Washington Irving
Hospitality is present when something happens for you. It is absent when something happens to you. Those two simple prepositions - for and to - express it all. -- Danny Meyer
It is easier to have faith that God will support each House of Hospitality and Farming Commune and supply our needs in the way of food and money to pay bills, than it is to keep a strong, hearty, living faith in each individual around us - to see Christ in him. -- Dorothy Day
Hospitality is simply love on the loose. -- Joan D. Chittister
Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly. -- Francis Atterbury
Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the poorest Americans. -- Jane Addams
Hospitality invites to prayer before it checks credentials, welcomes to the table before administering the entrance exam. -- Patrick Henry
Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him. -- O. Henry
Hospitality is the practice of God's welcome by reaching across difference to participate in God's actions bringing justice and healing to our world in crisis. -- Letty M. Russell
Hospitality is one of the things the Afghan population is famous for, but nobody says that anymore. Now they're terrorists - and they're not. They're people. -- Lisa Ling
We don't welcome the naked and hungry so they can be naked and hungry in our company. We clothe and feed. Hospitality is not toleration but transformation. -- Peter Leithart
Hospitality is the key to new ideas, new friends, new possibilities. What we take into our lives changes us. Without new people and new ideas, we are imprisoned inside ourselves. -- Joan D. Chittister
True Hospitality is welcoming the stranger on her own terms. This kind of hospitality can only be offered by those who've found the center of their lives in their own hearts. -- Henri Nouwen
A life of hospitality begins in worship, with a recognition of God's grace and generosity. Hospitality is not first a duty and responsibility; it is first a response of love and gratitude for God's love and welcome to us. -- Christine Pohl
Hospitality, or flinging wide the door to friends and wayfarers alike, was once important, back in a world without motels or safety nets, where a friend might find his castle burnt down or a wayfarer find bandits on his trail. -- Barbara Holland
I may not agree with all or even most of the tribal traditions, but it seems ti me that, out there, people live more authentic lives. They have a sturdiness about them. A refreshing humility. Hospitality too. And resilience. A sense of pride. -- Khaled Hosseini
Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone. -- William Shakespeare
Indian hotels are doing well globally because they understand hospitality. -- Zubin Mehta
A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints. -- Abigail Van Buren
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men! -- Jeremiah
I lived in a hotel across the street from Disneyland for a month. -- Steve Cropper
I have visited Japan several times and have always been shown wonderful hospitality. -- Stephen Hawking
The hospitality of the wigwam is only limited by the institution of war. -- Charles Alexander Eastman
It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed. -- Hugh Miller
I love the energy over here in the U.K., the hospitality is insane. -- Flo Rida
Blest that abode, where want and pain repair, And every stranger finds a ready chair. -- Oliver Goldsmith
For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest. -- Alexander Pope
Central Philippines has the competitive edge in tourism in its natural wonders and the extraordinary hospitality of its people. -- Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
Any celebration meal to which guests are invited, be they family or friends, should be an occasion for generous hospitality. -- Julian Baggini
I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn't like to. -- Oscar Wilde
HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging. -- Ambrose Bierce
I love hospitality, and I love cooking. The kitchen is where I feel most at ease and where I feel most like myself. -- Geoffrey Zakarian
For 't is always fair weather When good fellows get together With a stein on the table and a good song ringing clear. -- Richard Hovey
The Iraqi people are some of the warmest people you'll meet in your life. They are extremely receptive to strangers. Their hospitality is immense. -- Scott Ritter
I love the Swedish people for their detective novels, their archipelago, their sense of humor, their carbonated vodka, and most especially, for their wonderful hospitality. -- Michael Levitt
Let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in bed and board; but let truth and love and honor and courtesy flow in all thy deeds. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one of this nation ever begs, for the houses of all are common to all; and they consider liberality and hospitality amongst the first virtues. -- Giraldus Cambrensis
There is an emanation from the heart in genuine hospitality which cannot be described, but is immediately felt and puts the stranger at once at his ease. -- Washington Irving
The most important thing you can do is make the distinction between customer service and guest hospitality. You need both things to thrive, but they are completely different. -- Danny Meyer
Planning a dinner party in a way that you're actually capable of getting it done without panicking is important. It's bad hospitality for the host to be freaked out. -- Ted Allen
On behalf of my native Japan, I am grateful to the culinary community and hospitality industry for working together to raise much-needed funds to aid the tsunami and earthquake victims. -- Masaharu Morimoto
There are probably close to a million people in the hospitality industry here in the United States, and there are probably only a few hundred opportunities in the food media industry. -- Curtis Stone
Nowadays the host does not admit you to his hearth, but has got the mason to build one for yourself somewhere in his alley, and hospitality is the art of keeping you at the greatest distance. -- Henry David Thoreau
The study of tavern history often brings to light much evidence of sad domestic changes. Many a cherished and beautiful home, rich in annals of family prosperity and private hospitality, ended its days as a tavern. -- Alice Morse Earle
The lintel low enough to keep out pomp and pride; The threshold high enough to turn deceit aside; The doorband strong enough from robbers to defend; This door will open at a touch to welcome every friend. -- Henry Van Dyke
I am proud to be a Southerner. I think Southern hospitality is very... I don't think it's just a term. I think it really exists. You can come to Savannah, and the people are so sweet and so nice. -- Paula Deen
Don't think I am not homesick for America. I say 'homesick' advisedly because I am a man with two homes - America, which gave me hospitality for many happy years, and where my daughter was born; and my native England. -- Leslie Howard
No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend's house. [Lat., Hospes nullus tam in amici hospitium diverti potest, Quin ubi triduum continuum fuerit jam odiosus siet. -- Plautus
I have to say obviously it is not illegal for people to go to dinner and to socialise and take hospitality off members of the media organisations, but it was the scale and the timing and the frequency of contact that I thought was shocking. -- Tom A. Watson
There are hermit souls that live withdrawn In the place of their self-content; There are souls like stars that dwell apart, In a fellowless firmament; There are pioneer souls that blaze their paths Where highways never ran,-- But let me live by the side of the road, And be a friend to man. -- Sam Walter Foss
I've got high standards when it comes to boys. As my dad says, all girls should! I'm from the South - Tennessee, to be exact - and down there, we're all about southern hospitality. I know that if I like a guy, he better be nice, and above all, my dad has to approve of him! -- Miley Cyrus
It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed. In the thick of men it dwindles and disappears, life fruit in the thick of a wood; but where people are planted sparely it blossoms and matures, like apples on a standard or an espalier. It flourishes where the inn and lodging-house cannot exist. -- Hugh Miller
My father was a guy who, because of the businesses he was in - the hotel business, the hospitality business - he didn't differentiate between the waiter serving you dinner, from the maitre d from the guy who owns a restaurant. Everybody was the same to him. He didn't look at who you were. He didn't look at your wallet. -- Steve Tisch
Let me live in my house by the side of the road, Where the race of men go by; They are good, they are bad; they are weak, they are strong, Wise, foolish,--so am I; Then why should I sit in the scorner's seat, Or hurl the cynic's ban? Let me live in my house by the side of the road, And be a friend to man. -- Sam Walter Foss
Stories are verbal acts of hospitality. -- Eugene H. Peterson
There is no hospitality like understanding. -- Vanna Bonta
Twango's hospitality, though largely symbolic, does him credit. -- Jack Vance
The Americans, of course, are quite dotty with hospitality. -- Quentin Crisp
True hospitality is a delicate balance of warmth and form. -- Sheila Ostrander
Southern hospitality and Amish cooking - Ya'll Come Back, Danki. -- Karen Harper
A guest is a jewel on the cushion of hospitality -- Rex Stout
Provision is the foundation of hospitality, and thrift the fuel of magnificence. -- Philip Sidney
You make me a sinner if you stop me giving you hospitality. -- Idries Shah
True hospitality consists of giving the best of yourself to your guests. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality. -- Maria Edgeworth
Keeping one's guests supplied with liquor is the first law of hospitality. -- Margaret Way
the cosmopolitan gaze of planetary love and hospitality _is_ what constitutes being _religious_. -- Namsoon Kang
Religion is about hospitality, solidarity, and responsibility or it is nothing at all. -- Namsoon Kang
You're extending hospitality, and hospitality is a big part of how politics works. -- Kurt Meyer
Dreams are guests who ensoul our lives if we have hospitality for them. -- Jeannine Parvati Baker
The hospitality of the wigwam is only limited by the institution of war. -- Charles Alexander Eastman
I'd love to get into the hospitality industry, but I just don't have the time. -- Gautam Singhania
Entertaining is one method of avoiding people. It is very often the negation of hospitality. -- Elizabeth Bibesco
I never would have thought of that word, "hospitality." I settle into the rhythm of my steps. -- Paul Auster
In all my travels I have never seen the hospitality of San Francisco equalled anywhere in the world. -- Conrad Hilton
We shall always keep a spare corner in our heads to give passing hospitality to our friends' opinion. -- Joseph Joubert
I've been to the Reading festival twice before-as a punter, though I stayed backstage in the hospitality tent! -- Bruce Dickinson
Give thanks to the earth for the hospitality and generosityShow gratitude for life, light and every little beauty. -- Debasish Mridha
When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality. -- Al Capone
When I sell liquor, its called bootlegging when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, its called hospitality -- Al Capone
To me India is a land of beauty and generosity, of traditional hospitality and the acceptance of many cultures. -- Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
cowardice more than any other failing demands a ruthless paying of the price from those who give it hospitality. -- Elizabeth Goudge
Those who pass their lives in foreign travel find they contract many ties of hospitality, but form no friendships. -- Seneca the Younger
Maine's motto is "Vacationland," but as far as I'm concerned, it should be, "Maine: Putting the 'spite' in hospitality since 1820." -- John Hodgman
When I sell liquor, it's bootlegging. When my patrons serve it on a silver tray on Lakeshore Drive, it's hospitality. -- Al Capone
No, Sir, you will have much more influence by giving or lending money where it is wanted, than by hospitality. -- Samuel Johnson
... Nashville is such a fantastic city, with this great creative music energy. Then there's that Southern hospitality, you can't beat that. -- Sam Palladio
Israel has, enjoys bipartisan support - both Democrats and Republicans - and we extend bipartisan hospitality to both Democrats and Republicans. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
Aside from hospitality and delicious food, our [restaurateurs'] job is to entertain people. Restaurants should make people feel special, excited and fulfilled. -- Joe Bastianich
I went to college to study hospitality. I quickly got out of that and realized that what I liked to do was write. -- Richard Ford
the bleakest situations bring out the hospitality in all of us, but it's during the harshest we find out how strong we really are. -- Evan Meekins
Turning your nose up at a genuine and sincere gesture of hospitality is no way to travel or to make friends around the world. -- Anthony Bourdain
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
I love the Swedish people for their detective novels, their archipelago, their sense of humor, their carbonated vodka, and most especially, for their wonderful hospitality." -- Michael Levitt
No one of this nation ever begs, for the houses of all are common to all; and they consider liberality and hospitality amongst the first virtues. -- Giraldus Cambrensis
Mr Moss's courtyard is railed in like a cage, lest the gentlemen who are boarding with him should take a fancy to escape from his hospitality. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
We shall trespass upon your aunt and uncle's hospitality only a little longer.' You will, will you?' Yes,' said Dumbledore simply, 'I shall. -- J. K. Rowling
Eating, and hospitality in general, is a communion, and any meal worth attending by yourself is improved by the multiples of those with whom it is shared. -- Jesse Browner
Cookery means"¦English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it means carefulness, inventiveness, and watchfulness. -- John Ruskin
It is a great mistake to say that the Chinese are not hospitable. A more graceful, hearty hospitality than that of the Chinese I have met in no land. -- Lottie Moon
I was overwhelmed with the kindness of people [in Afghanistan] and found that they had managed to retain their dignity, their pride, and their hospitality under unspeakably bleak conditions. -- Khaled Hosseini
There's a condensed softness about the Albanian people, and I've witnessed examples of their hospitality. Albanian blood runs through my veins and I am proud to call myself Albanian. -- Masiela Lusha
We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality. -- Joseph Joubert
Show me a religion that doesn't care about compassion. Show me a religion that doesn't care about stewardship of the environment. Show me a religion that doesn't care about hospitality. -- Eboo Patel
You always get that one customer that decides that your name is boy. Or something. It certainly reinforces a respect I already had for people that are in the hospitality industry. -- Ryan Reynolds
The word hospitality in the New Testament comes from two Greek words. The first word means love and the second word means strangers. Its a word that means love of strangers. -- Nancy Leigh DeMoss
As a traditional Jew, I have benefited personally from the hospitality of Chabad Hasidim on many occasions, and I marvel at how many Jews Chabad has brought back to their primordial home. -- David Novak
This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself. Keep your mind open to the influences of nature. Receive new thoughts with hospitality. Let us advance. -- Robert G. Ingersoll
The supply of good fellows is by no means in excess of the demand. A man has only to hoist the flag of hospitality to insure a very considerable amount of custom. -- Robert Smith Surtees
We learn to dwell with God by learning the practices of hospitality, listening, forgiveness, and reconciliation- the daily tasks of life with other people. Stability in Christ is always stability in community -- Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to become friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and even to dare to be silent with you. -- Henri Nouwen
I know people like myself where we've got resorts, or we're in the hospitality business, and we just can't make money because you're paying someone minimum $42 per hour or something on a Sunday. -- Gerry Harvey
Peace is an awareness of reserves from beyond ourselves, so that our power is not so much in us as through us. Peace is the gift, not of volitional struggle, but of spiritual hospitality. -- Harry Emerson Fosdick

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