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Every house guest brings you happiness. Some when they arrive, and some when they are leaving
Sep 29, 2025
None of my songs are written 'about' someone or something, they all just sort of tumble out unannounced, like the worst kind of house guest.
There's such a gulf between yourself and who you were then, but people speak to that other person and it answers; it's like having a stranger as a house guest in your skin.
Keeping one's guests supplied with liquor is the first law of hospitality.
When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.
Every house where love abides And friendship is a guest, Is surely home, and home sweet home For there the heart can rest.
A hotel isn't like a home, but it's better than being a house guest.
People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.
If it were not for guests all houses would be graves.
Fish and visitors stink in three days.
We labor to make a house a home, then every time we're expecting visitors, we rush to turn it back into a house.
The only way to permanently install a new habit is to direct so much energy toward it that the old one slips away like an unwelcome house guest.
I always feel that I have two duties to perform with a parting guest: one, to see that he doesn't forget anything that is his; the other, to see that he doesn't take anything that is mine.
House guests (I don't care who they are, how much I like them, or how long it's been since I last saw them) are pests, much like roaches and mice. But there are differences. You can trap roaches and mice. And they don't want you to drive them to Disneyland.
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.
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream.
HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.
Mindfulness is developing an awareness of the thoughts and feelings that we move through without getting drawn into the meanings or taking action or getting sucked into the story. Like house guests, eventually they all leave. We become more attuned to being a container for those things and less identified with them.
Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, 'A house guest,' you're wrong because I have just described my kids.
One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
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.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in.
Guests stay where you've put them, and carry on doing whatever you suggested they do, until you suggest they stop and do something else. If you leave them drinking a cup of tea and looking through your holiday slides, they're supposed to sit tight till you ask them to come and string beans in your kitchen.
Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.
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.
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.
This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. Welcome and entertain them all!
His [Rudolph Giuliani] marital life became unhinged with his wife kicking him out of the mayor`s residence of Gracie mansion. That he took up residence as a house guest in an apartment owned by friends of his.The friends were a loving gay couple. And that is the best thing I know about Rudy Giuliani.
No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
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.
A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
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