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Classical antiquity3 quotes
No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days. — Pleusicles · 200 BCFor 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 BCColonial America2 quotes
Fish and Visitors stink after three days. — Benjamin Franklin · 1736If you’d lose a troublesome Visitor, lend him money. — Benjamin Franklin · 1744New Testament Era1 quote
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. — Hebrews 13:2 · 69The Renaissance1 quote
Unbidden guests
Are often welcomest when they are gone. — William Shakespeare · 1592