Guest Quotes

We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest. (Horace)
A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast. View quote
Friedrich Schiller
Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy. View quote
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
A guest of one's time and not a member of its household. View quote
George F. Kennan
Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest. View quote
Kin Hubbard
One should always sleep in all of one's guest beds, to make sure that they are comfortable. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
The main prank that we play with props is for people's birthdays. The special effects people will put a little explosive in the cake so it blows up in their face - that's always fun to play on a guest star, or one of the trainees or someone who's new. View quote
Catherine Bell
Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is reasonable. View quote
Gary Miller
When you're a guest star on TV shows - particularly in the 1960s - you're always the villain. View quote
Robert Vaughan
And as pale sickness does invade, Your frailer part, the breaches made, In that fair lodging still more clear, Make the bright guest, your soul, appear. (Edmund Waller)
The Indian...stands free and unconstrained in Nature, is her inhabitant and not her guest, and wears her easily and gracefully. But the civilized man has the habits of the house. His house is a prison. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Whereas the work is understood to be traceable to a source (through a process of derivation or "filiation"), the Text is without a source - the "author" a mere "guest" at the reading of the Text. View quote
Roland Barthes
Why can't we be friends now?" said the other, holding him affectionately. "It's what I want. It's what you want." But the horses didn't want it - they swerved apart: the earth didn't want it, sending up rocks through which riders must pass single file; the temple, the tank, the jail, the palace, the birds, the carrion, the Guest House, that came into view as they emerged from the gap and saw Mau beneath: they didn't want it, they said in their hundred voices "No, not yet," and the sky said "No, not there. View quote
E. M. Forster
To turn away a guest is poorest poverty; To bear with fools is mightiest might. View quote
Thiruvalluvar
Americans have the right to choose to be unarmed and helpless. Be my guest. View quote
Ted Nugent
I was in a cab in New York. The cab had a sign, "Please do not smoke, Christ is our unseen guest." This guy was reaching. I figure, if he could overcome being nailed to a cross, I don't think a Marlboro Light's gonna faze him that much. View quote
Bill Hicks
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest. View quote
Bertolt Brecht
What is pleasanter that the tie of host and guest. View quote
Aeschylus
Anacharsis coming to Athens, knocked at Solon's door, and told him that he, being a stranger, was come to be his guest, and contract a friendship with him; and Solon replying, "It is better to make friends at home," Anacharsis replied, "Then you that are at home make friendship with me." View quote
Plutarch
Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate, Whose table once a Guest, but not The second time, is set. Whose crumbs the crows inspect, And with ironic caw Flap past it to the Farmer's corn; Men eat of it and die. (Emily Dickinson)
There is a day of sunny rest For every dark and troubled night; And a grief may bid, and evening guest, Bot joy shall come with early light. View quote
William Cullen Bryant
In time you shall see Fate approach you In the shape of your own image in the mirror; Or you shall sit alone by your own hearth, And suddenly the chair by you shall hold a guest, And you shall know that guest, And read the authentic message of his eyes. View quote
Edgar Lee Masters
No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days. View quote
Plautus
The world's an Inn; and I her guest. View quote
Francis Quarles
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