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Guests and visitors10 quotes
Fish and Visitors stink after three days. — Benjamin Franklin · 1736No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days. — Pleusicles · 200 BCOnce upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,—
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. — Edgar Allan Poe · 1845If you’d lose a troublesome Visitor, lend him money. — Benjamin Franklin · 1744Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. — Hebrews 13:2 · 69I'm a realist. I understand it's the 21st century and you've probably had premarital relations with my daughter. But under our roof, it's my way or the Long Island Expressway. Is that understood? — Jack Byrnes · 2000All 10 quotes →Hospitality6 quotes
Fish and Visitors stink after three days. — Benjamin Franklin · 1736No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days. — Pleusicles · 200 BCBe not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. — Hebrews 13:2 · 69I'm a realist. I understand it's the 21st century and you've probably had premarital relations with my daughter. But under our roof, it's my way or the Long Island Expressway. Is that understood? — Jack Byrnes · 2000For where is goodwill greater than from guest to host? — Aeschylus · 458 BCIt is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go. — Homer · 700 BCWearing out one's welcome3 quotes
Fish and Visitors stink after three days. — Benjamin Franklin · 1736No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days. — Pleusicles · 200 BCIf you’d lose a troublesome Visitor, lend him money. — Benjamin Franklin · 1744Fathers and daughters1 quote
I'm a realist. I understand it's the 21st century and you've probably had premarital relations with my daughter. But under our roof, it's my way or the Long Island Expressway. Is that understood? — Jack Byrnes · 2000Friends1 quote
An old friend is never an extra guest. — Alexander Sebastian · 1946Lending1 quote
If you’d lose a troublesome Visitor, lend him money. — Benjamin Franklin · 1744Old friends1 quote
An old friend is never an extra guest. — Alexander Sebastian · 1946Unexpected visitors1 quote
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,—
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. — Edgar Allan Poe · 1845