Quotes About Receiving Guests

#1. Receive a guest with the same attitude you have when alone. When alone, maintain the same attitude you have in receiving guests.

Soyen Shaku

#2. Death in Somalia seldom bothers to announce its arrival. In fact, death calls with the arrogance of a guest confident on receiving a warm welcome at any time, no question asked.

Nuruddin Farah

#3. She looked so cute wen she was apologizing that Helen couldn't even pick up a grudge, let alone carry one.

Josephine Angelini

#4. President and Mrs. Kennedy would walk into the East Room with their honored guests, preceded by the military color guard, who then posted their flags behind the receiving line. This ceremony never failed to move all of us, no matter how many times the staff witnessed it.

Letitia Baldrige

#5. It didn't have a name. Animals don't normally bother with them.

Terry Pratchett

#6. Ask yourself constantly, "What is the right thing to do?" Behave toward everyone as if receiving a great guest.

Confucius

#7. The closest I ever came to death was masturbating with a 104-degree temperature.

Larry David

#8. What is birthday, but a celebration of death.

Aphole

#9. The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.

John Bunyan

#10. Wealth acts merely as a kind of mirror to show you human nature at its worst.

Marie Corelli

#11. Or do you think perhaps the mountain has a memory?

Robert Seethaler