Quotes on House Guests

This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. Welcome and entertain them all!

There's such a gulf between yourself and who you were then, but people speak to that other person and it answers; it's like having a stranger as a house guest in your skin.

HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.

No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.

This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

Fish and visitors stink in three days.