Uninvited guests are often most welcome when they leave — Aesop
An uninvited in-law finds no space to sit — Greek Proverbs
Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest. — Kin Hubbard
VOCATUS ATQUE NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT. — Carl Jung
No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days. — Plautus
True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation. — Theophrastus
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
The first day a guest, the second day a guest, the third day a calamity. — Indian Proverbs
Other people are occupied, I alone am unwilling, like the outcast. — Lao Tzu
The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master. — Kahlil Gibran
All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise. — Cleopatra
Stop inviting walls into wide open spaces. — Buddy Wakefield
Every house guest brings you happiness. Some when they arrive, and some when they are leaving — Confucius
Short Uninvited Quotes
When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited. — Rama Krishna
When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited. — Ramakrishna
The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited. — Stephen King
Uninvited criticism is insult. — John L'Heureux
The only reason to delay at this point was because the immediate prospect was so deeply uninviting. — J. K. Rowling
Its language is as bare as a monk's cell, and as uninviting. — Clifford Longley
Gross things sound funny and set people up to listen to something a little uninviting. — Brian Chippendale
Understanding, above all, is a gift we should never offer uninvited. — Nan Fairbrother
we know that the Furies do not come uninvited. — Katherine Anne Porter
Uninvited Image Quotes
Uninvited Guests Quotes
Whenever someone makes out a guest list, the people not on it become officially uninvited, and that makes them the enemies of the invited. Guest lists are just a way of choosing sides. — E. L. Konigsburg
I do whatever pushes me hardest. It's coming at me and I try to... it's like uninvited guest and I have to wrestle them out the door or through the window - get them out and get over with them quickly. — Werner Herzog
'Tis they who are in their own chambers haunted By thoughts that like unbidden guests intrude, And sit down, uninvited and unwanted, And make a nightmare of the solitude. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Painting is still to a great extent dominated by a central image; corners in most cases are like uninvited guests at a party, uneasy and unattended. — Harold Town
I've had fans come and knock on my door. I'm usually polite, but I'm usually very direct and say, 'It's not cool that you come here uninvited. — Gary Allan
The devils enter uninvited when the house stands empty. For other kinds of guests, you have to first open the door. — Dag Hammarskjold
When you least expect to recall something, a memory can pop up like an uninvited guest on your doorstep. — Lesley Kagen
When executing advertising, it's best to think of yourself as an uninvited guest in the living room of a prospect who has the magical power to make you disappear instantly. — John O'Toole
Not Invited Quotes
We may sing 'welcome, welcome, Holy Spirit', but He does not come because of our welcome. He is no guest, no stranger invited in for an hour or two. He is the Lord from heaven and He invites us into His presence. — Reinhard Bonnke
If we wish to serve God and love our neighbor well, we must manifest our joy in the service we render to Him and them. Let us open wide our hearts. It is joy which invites us. Press forward and fear nothing. — Katharine Drexel
When we speak for the poor, please note that we do not take sides with one social class. What we do is invite all social classes, rich and poor, without distinction, saying to everyone let us take seriously the cause of the poor as though it were our own. — Oscar Romero
The end for which we are created invites us to walk a road that is surely sown with a lot of thorns, but it is not sad; through even the sorrow, it is illuminated by joy. — Pier Giorgio Frassati
True religion is not about possessing the truth. No religion does that. It is rather an invitation into a journey that leads one toward the mystery of God. Idolatry is religion pretending that it has all the answers. — Sayings
Those who participate in [sabbath] break the anxiety cycle. They are invited to awareness that life does not consist in frantic production and consumption that reduces everyone else to threat and competition. — Walter Brueggemann
Mr. Hitler was big on me. He kept writing and inviting me to come to Germany, and if the war hadn't started when it did, I would have gone and I would have taken a gun out of my purse and shot him, because I am the only person who would not have been searched. — Sayings
I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes. — Fidel Castro
Being brave enough to be alone frees you up to invite people into your life because you want them and not because you need them. — Mandy Hale
I cannot live in mediocrity, content with merely knowing that there is more of God to experience and explore -and then do nothing about it. Truths that are not experienced are, in effect, more like theories than truths. Whenever God reveals truth to us He is inviting us into a divine encounter. — Bill Johnson
Never Invited Quotes
The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude. — Kate Chopin
You’ll never please everyone. Find those who like the real you and invite them closer. All others don’t matter to you. — Mo Gawdat
God never asked us to meet life's pressures and demands on our own terms or by relying upon our own strength. Nor did He demands that we win His favor by assembling an impressive portfolio of good deeds. Instead, He invites us to enter His rest. — Charles R. Swindoll
The rest of the Spice Girls wanted to invite the entire Bayern Munich team because they reckoned they'd never known blokes to be on top for 90 minutes and still come second. — Gary Neville
You carry your snare everywhere and spread your nets in all places. You allege that you never invited others to sin. You did not indeed, by your words, but you have done so by your dress and your deportment. — Saint John Chrysostom
Try never to be the smartest person in the room. And if you are, I suggest you invite smarter people... or find a different room. — Michael Dell
Media were never allowed into an Australian dressing room until I became skipper. I changed that and invited them in at the close of play each day, thereby confirming for many administrators they had appointed a madman as captain. — Richie Benaud
Did you hear this big scandal? Eight female badminton players were expelled from the Olympics for trying to lose on purpose. So tragically, they'll never have another chance to play badminton unless they get invited to a picnic. — Conan O'Brien
Misfortune is never invited. And it comes and sits at the table without permission and it eats, leaving nothing but bones. — Jacques Roumain
We never know who they are that God will draw, and have nothing to do with it. Our duty is to invite all, and leave it to God to choose the vessels of mercy. — J. C. Ryle
Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?"... "Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223"... "And pray, why would this number interest us?" "It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, 'One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes'. — Abraham Verghese
My mental boundaries expanded when I viewed the Earth against a black and uninviting vacuum, yet my country's rich traditions had conditioned me to look beyond man-made boundaries and prejudices. One does not have to undertake a space flight to come by this feeling. — Rakesh Sharma
When you demand nothing of the world, nor of God, when you want nothing, seek nothing, expect nothing, then the supreme state will come to you uninvited and unexpected. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Fate is the raw materials of experience. They come uninvited and often unanticipated. Destiny is what a man does with these raw materials. — Howard Thurman
Happiness comes uninvited: and the moment that you are conscious that you are happy, you are no longer happy. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
One immense old lady has a family of lively young crocodiles running over her, evidently playing like a lot of kittens. The heavy musky smell they give off is most repulsive, but we do not rise up and make a row about this, because we feel hopelessly in the wrong in intruding into these family scenes uninvited. — Mary Kingsley
Nothing makes people in the church more angry than grace. It's ironic: we stumble into a party we weren't invited to and find the uninvited standing at the door making sure no other uninviteds get in. — Mike Yaconelli
We don't learn to love each other well in the easy moments. Anyone is good company at a cocktail party. But love is born when we misunderstand one another and make it right, when we cry in the kitchen, when we show up uninvited with magazines and granola bars, in an effort to say, I love you. — Shauna Niequist
My life is flashing lights and pointing fingers and uninvited visitors. Inches away, humans flatten their little hands against the wall of glass that separates us.The glass says you are this and we are that and that is how it will always be. — Katherine Applegate
Besides, if I wanted to hear people speaking wall-to-wall French, all I had to do was remove my headphones and participate in what is known as ‘real life,’ a concept as uninviting as a shampoo cocktail. — David Sedaris
Even though you've given up a past it hasn't given you up. It comes uninvited - and sometimes half welcome. — Susan Glaspell
Glory never arrives through the front door. She sneaks in uninvited round the back or through an upstairs window while you are sleeping. — Stephen Fry
Odd that the future should be so difficult to bring into focus when the past, uninvited, offered itself up so easily for inspection. — Richard Russo
What do we want with this vast, worthless area? This region of savages and wild beasts, of deserts of shifting sands and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs? To what use could we ever hope to put these great deserts, or those endless mountain ranges, impenetrable and covered to their very base with eternal snow? What can we ever hope to do with the western coast, a coast of three thousand miles, rock-bound, cheerless, uninviting, and not a harbor on it? What use have we for this country? — Daniel Webster
Each of us has the right and the responsibility to asses the road which lie ahead and those over which we have traveled, and if the feature road looms ominous or unpromising, and the road back uninviting-inviting, then we need to gather our resolve and carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that one as well. — Maya Angelou
In the psychological literature, depression is often seen as a defense against sadness. But I'll take sadness any day. There is no contest. Sadness carries identification. You know where it's been and you know where it's headed. Depression carries no papers. It enters your country unannounced and uninvited. Its origins are unknown, but its destination always dead-ends in you. — Martha Manning
The avant-garde in every field consists of the lonely, the friendless, the uninvited. All progress is the product of the unpopular. — Chuck Palahniuk
I've heard some pretty bad things in my life. I'm just one of those people I've gotten to a point where I don't want to be rude, but if it's uninvited attention from people it's like, "Thank you, but no." I'm going to shut you down right away. — Sophia Bush
Meditation is not the pursuit of pleasure and the search for happiness. Meditation, on the contrary, is a state of mind in which there is no concept or formula, and therefore total freedom. It is only to such a mind that this bliss comes unsought and uninvited. Once it is there, though you may live in the world with all its noise, pleasure and brutality, they will not touch that mind. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
A tragic mistake that is often made is to assume that the will of God is bound to be something very dull and uninviting, if not positively unpleasant. Consciously or not some persons look upon God as a hard taskmaster, or a severe parent. . . . The truth is that the will of God for us always means greater freedom, greater self-expression, newer and brighter experience, wider opportunity of service to others-life more abundant. — Emmet Fox
Alas! It is well written, The road to eminence lies through the cheap and exceedingly uninviting eating-houses. — Ernest Bramah
I settled in with The Uninvited Guests thinking I knew what kind of Edwardian pleasures were in store: the fraught dinner party in an endangered, rambling house, the feuding family, the rich suitor, the disruptive visitors. The novel has all of those delightful things, but it also defied every one of my expectations. I saw none of it coming. I read it in one breathless sitting, and finished wanting to give it to everyone I know. — Maile Meloy
Paris, on the other hand, looked exactly as it was supposed to look. It wore its heart on its sleeve, and the strange thing was that the heart it wore so openly was in other ways so closed-mysterious, uninviting. — Adam Gopnik
It is a mark of the depth of their wounding that they are pretending they suspected it all along. Everything that they have seen and been told about love so far has been an inside perspective, and they are not prepared for the crashing weight of this exclusion. It dawns on them now how much they never saw and how little they were wanted, and with this dawning comes a painful re-imagining of the self as peripheral, uninvited, and utterly minor. — Eleanor Catton
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