Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days. — Benjamin Franklin
No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not annoy his host after three days. — Plautus
Comfort comes into your house first as guest, then as a host, then finally as the master. — David Bowie
It's good to be a guest, but it's better to be at home. — Russian Proverbs
Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest. — Kin Hubbard
An uninvited in-law finds no space to sit — Greek Proverbs
To invite people to dine with us is to make ourselves responsible for their well-being for as long as they are under our roofs. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
A guest sees more in an hour than the host in a year. — Polish Proverbs
Corpses and annoying guests stink by the third day — Mexican Proverbs
The first day a guest, the second day a guest, the third day a calamity. — Indian Proverbs
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Short House Guests Quotes
This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. Welcome and entertain them all! — Rumi
A guest never forgets the host who had treated him kindly. — Homer
Everyone has this universal understanding of roommate drama. — Leighton Meester
I have two roommates, so it's a challenge to keep the house the way I like. — Evangeline Lilly
If you are in the house of a friend, bad times are soon forgotten. — Albanian Proverbs
Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house. — Rod Stewart
A house is a machine for living in. — Le Corbusier
The words you speak become the house you live in.
Knowing that I am different from the body, I need not neglect the body. It is a vehicle that I use to transact with the world. It is the temple which houses the Pure Self within. — Adi Shankara
Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions. — Hafez
On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. — H. L. Mencken
Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.
You do know it cost money to put a t-shirt on your back? You do know it cost money have a house? You do know it cost money to eat? Get money, don't let these people fool you. — DJ Khaled
Intellect takes you to the door, but it doesn't take you into the house. — Shams Tabrizi
I think [Steve Scalise] is a good man I am not going to vote in that regard because I believe Israel controls the Senate they control the House of Representatives they control the media . — David Duke
I live right in front of my daughter. I have a little house right in front of her because I can stay in touch. It's like a little commune, and it's very nice, because you can be close. I can see my granddaughter. I live very close to my brother, too, and my son. We're a very close family. — Debbie Reynolds
Animal House Quotes
Being kind to animals is not enough. Avoiding cruelty is not enough. Housing animals in more comfortable, larger cages is not enough. Whether we exploit animals to eat, to wear, to entertain us, or to learn, the truth of animal rights requires empty cages, not larger cages. — Tom Regan
I have made multiple videos telling fans not to come to our house. I feel like a zoo animal. — Jake Paul
First I wanted to be a veterinarian. And then I realized you had to give them shots to put them to sleep, so I decided I'd just buy a bunch of animals and have them in my house instead. — Paris Hilton
The ornament of a house is the friend who frequent it.
ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly ("Musca maledicta"). The father of Zoology was Aristotle, as is universally conceded, but the name of its mother has not come down to us. — Ambrose Bierce
A house is not a home until it has a dog. — Gerald Durrell
The cat is the only non-gregarious domestic animal. It is retained by its extra-ordinary adhesion to the comforts of the house in which it is reared. — Francis Galton
Women today leave the house in animal prints and six inch stilettos, what does that say? I'm going to church? They're saying I want you to hang me by my tits from your ceiling and bite my ass. You know what I mean? That's what it says to me anyway. — Andrew Dice Clay
Six million Jews died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughter houses. — Ingrid Newkirk
A tree is a thought, an obstruction stopping the flow of wind and light, trapping water, housing insects, birds, and animals, and breathing in and out. How treelike the human, how human the tree. — Gretel Ehrlich
I don't know if the presidential candidates are running for the White House or Animal House. — Bob Hope
Big Houses Quotes
A jump shot can get you a shoe deal, a big house, a supermodel, fancy cars, a bunch of yes men, a Swiss bank account. But none of these things can get you a jump shot — Allen Iverson
I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out. — Victoria Beckham
Democracy is buying a big house you can't afford with money you don't have to impress people you wish were dead. — Johnny Carson
It seemed like this was one big Prozac nation, one big mess of malaise. Perhaps the next time half a million people gather for a protest march on the White House green it will not be for abortion rights or gay liberation, but because we're all so bummed out. — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Success can never be measured by big houses, luxury cars, or fancy clothes. For me, greatness can only be measured by what we do for others… — Chatri Sityodtong
No single housing finance institution should be too big to fail. — Jerome Powell
The future will belong to the Germans... ...when we build the House of Europe. In the next two years, we will make the process of European integration irreversible. This is a really big battle but it is worth the fight. — Helmut Kohl
I like a house party and fancy dress, a big fan of fancy dress, like dress up, costume parties. — Florence Welch
And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture. — Arne Jacobsen
I have a big problem when the sanctimonious, holier than thou congressmen and women go on national television for six hours and beat somebody up with a stick, and not because I'm 'Ms. Manners.' That's not what bothers me. People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. — Bernard Goldberg
Burning House Quotes
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. — Joan Crawford
All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm. — John Green
One man's house burns so that another may warm himself. — Indian Proverbs
Hating someone is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. Invest your energy into something more worthwhile. — Perrie Edwards
I always put clothes and family photos under the mattress, in case the house burns down. — Kim Kardashian
The stone throwing and house burning is no longer a face of Kenya . Kenya is now a destination for investment and tourism. — Raila Odinga
To bear children into this world is like carrying wood to a burning house. — Peter Wessel Zapffe
We didn't have any civil rights. It was just a matter of survival, of existing from one day to the next. I remember going to sleep as a girl hearing the Klan ride at night and hearing a lynching and being afraid the house would burn down. — Rosa Parks
If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better. — Lou Holtz
Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It's like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat your house. If you can't control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you. If you can control your fear, it makes you more alert, like a deer coming across the lawn. — Mike Tyson
Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. — Rumi
Our concept of a family holiday was going to a guest house in the Lake district or Wales, where walking was part of the holiday. — Roger Bannister
The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master. — Kahlil Gibran
When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul. — Max Beerbohm
To take advantage of the last precious minutes, you've got to stay afield as late as the birds do, regardless of a houseful of guests, the sanguine promises you've made the missus, or the overdraft bank notice at home. To heck with everybody and everything when birds are feeding and fish are biting. Stay late and lie like a dog if necessary. — Havilah Babcock
The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. — Rumi
We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fish and visitors stink in three days. — Benjamin Franklin
People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them. — Anton Chekhov
Every body we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books, conservatory, gardens, equipage, and all manner of toys, as screens to interpose between himself and his guest. Does it not seem as if man was of a very sly, elusive nature, and dreaded nothing so much as a full rencontre front to front with his fellow? — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our enemies ... seem always with us. The greater our hatred the more persistent the memory of them so that a truly terrible enemy becomes deathless. So that the man who has done you great injury or injustice makes himself a guest in your house forever. Perhaps only forgiveness can dislodge him. — Cormac McCarthy
Lange was hosting a reception at Vogel House for the Chinese politician Hu Yao Bang when the lights went out. Lange immediately asked all the guests to raise their hands because "many hands make light work." The audience complied, and to their amazement the lights immediately came back on. Lange was invited to visit China. — David Lange
Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree. — Karl Barth
We labor to make a house a home, then every time we're expecting visitors, we rush to turn it back into a house. — Robert Breault
We still lend our old house out to relatives. They keep a guest book for my fans to sign. — Loretta Lynn
Most old people ... are disheartened to be living in the ailing house of their bodies, to be limited physically and economically, to feel an encumbrance to others - guests who didn't have the good manners to leave when the party was over. — Barbara Walters
My table seats eight, so that's my maximum. Having a small number of guests is the only way to generate good conversation. Besides, your whole house doesn't get wrecked that way. — Paul Lynde
I ended up living at OJ's because Nicole bought a home that no longer had a guest house. OJ offered his guest house to me. Anybody in LA looking for a place knows the best places to live are guest houses. — Kato Kaelin
Guests stay where you've put them, and carry on doing whatever you suggested they do, until you suggest they stop and do something else. If you leave them drinking a cup of tea and looking through your holiday slides, they're supposed to sit tight till you ask them to come and string beans in your kitchen. — Anne Fine
I always feel that I have two duties to perform with a parting guest: one, to see that he doesn't forget anything that is his; the other, to see that he doesn't take anything that is mine. — Alfred North Whitehead
If it were not for guests all houses would be graves. — Kahlil Gibran
Keeping one's guests supplied with liquor is the first law of hospitality. — Margaret Way
In popular houses where visitors like to go again and again, there is always a happy combination of some attention on the part of the hostess and the perfect freedom of the guests to occupy their time as they choose. — Emily Post
When any one of our relations was found to be a person of a very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one we desired to get rid of, upon his leaving my house I ever took care to lend him a riding-coat, or a pair of boots, or sometimes a horse of small value, and I always had the satisfaction of finding he never came back to return them. — Oliver Goldsmith
House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad. — Erma Bombeck
I suppose the White House thinks it's doing what Big Business wants, but it will lead to vastly increased taxes, because all these guest workers are to be allowed to bring their children. — Peter Brimelow
A hotel isn't like a home, but it's better than being a house guest. — William Feather
HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging. — Ambrose Bierce
I cant stand those food cult people who bring their own food into the house. All those little thermoses and paper bags-it makes the other guests uncomfortable. — Paul Lynde
I have heard stories that it was love at first sight for both of us, that we disappeared to a guest room at Merle's house, had our meals sent up, and didn't emerge for several days. This is absolutely untrue. I would never behave like that as a guest in someone's home. Carlos and I went to my beach house. — Martha Graham
If you're a guest [at my $113 million house], you'll be able to call up on screens throughout the house almost any image you like - presidential portraits, reproductions of High Renaissance paintings, pictures of sunsets, airplanes, skiers in the Andes, a rare French stamp, the Beatles in 1965. — Bill Gates
The devils enter uninvited when the house stands empty. For other kinds of guests, you have to first open the door. — Dag Hammarskjold
House guests (I don't care who they are, how much I like them, or how long it's been since I last saw them) are pests, much like roaches and mice. But there are differences. You can trap roaches and mice. And they don't want you to drive them to Disneyland. — Margo Kaufman
No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend's house. [Lat., Hospes nullus tam in amici hospitium diverti potest, Quin ubi triduum continuum fuerit jam odiosus siet. — Plautus
The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master. — Kahlil Gibran
Celebrating the holidays in the White House over these past eight years has been a true privilege. We've been able to welcome over half a million guests... our outstanding pastry chefs have baked 200,000 holiday cookies... and Barack [Obama] has treated the American people to countless dad jokes. — Michelle Obama
Every house where love abidesAnd friendship is a guest,Is surely home, and home, sweet homeFor there the heart can rest. — Henry Van Dyke
Towns are full of people, houses full of tenants, hotels full of guests, trains full of travelers, caf?s full of customers, parks full of promenaders, consulting-rooms of famous doctors full of patients, theatres full of spectators, and beaches full of bathers. What previously was, in general, no problem, now begins to be an everyday one, namely, to find room. — Jos
I actually never auditioned for 'Full House.' I had done a guest appearance on 'Valerie' as the next door neighbor's niece, and from that I got into 'Full House.' I was only five years old, and I was on the show until I was 13. — Jodi Sweetin
Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, "A house guest," you're wrong because I have just described my kids. — Erma Bombeck
When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my grandparents' boarding house in Waukegan, Illinois. Those were the years when Hugo Gernsback was publishing 'Amazing Stories,' with vivid, appallingly imaginative cover paintings that fed my hungry imagination. — Ray Bradbury
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