Hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even though you wish they were
Proverb
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For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best,
Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.
Alexander Pope
Quotes , Source: Satire II (bk. II, l. 159)
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Be it not in thy care. Go,
I charge thee, invite them all; let in the tide
Of knaves once more; my cook and I'll provide.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The Life of Timon of Athens (Timon at III, iv)
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True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Quotes , Source: The Odyssey (bk. XV, l. 83), (Pope's translation)
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When friends are at your hearthside met,
Sweet courtesy has done its most
If you have made each guest forget
That he himself is not the host.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Quotes , Source: Hospitality
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Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in
honour preferring one another;
Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in
prayer;
Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Romans (ch. XII, v. 10-13)
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If my best wines mislike thy taste,
And my best service win thy frown,
Then tarry not, I bid thee haste;
There's many another Inn in town.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Quotes , Source: Quits
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Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men;
that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all
adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Jeremiah (ch. IX, v. 2)
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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
Quotes , Source: House by the Side of the Road
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There are hermit souls that live withdrawn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
Quotes , Source: House by the Side of the Road
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He kept no Christmas-house for once a yeere,
Each day his boards were fild with Lordly fare;
He fed a rout of yeoman with his cheer,
Nor was his bread and beefe kept in with care;
His wine and beere to strangers were not spare,
And yet beside to all that hunger greved,
His gates were open, and they were there relived.
Robert Greene
Quotes , Source: A Maiden's Dream (l. 232)
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Axylos, Teuthranos's son that dwelt in stablished Arisbe; a man
of substance dear to his fellows; for his dwelling was by the
road-side and he entertained all men.
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Quotes , Source: The Iliad (bk. VI, l. 12), (Lang's translation)
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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
Quotes , Source: Spring
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So saying, with despatchful looks in haste
She turns, on hospitable thoughts intent.
John Milton
Quotes , Source: Paradise Lost (bk. V, l. 331)
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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 (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Quotes , Source: Miles Gloriosus (III, 3, 12)
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My master is of churlish disposition
And little recks to find the way to heaven
By doing deeds of hospitality.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: As You Like It (Corin at II, iv)
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I am your host.
With robber's hands in my hospitable favors
You should not ruffle thus.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: King Lear (Gloucester at III, vii)
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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 Jackson van Dyke
Quotes , Source: Inscription for a Friend's House
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What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?
Aeschylus
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