Uninvited guests are often most welcome when they leave — Aesop
An uninvited in-law finds no space to sit — Greek Proverbs
No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days. — Plautus
No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not annoy his host after three days. — Plautus
Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest. — Kin Hubbard
All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise. — Cleopatra
Three nights old visitors are considered the worst. — Icelandic Proverbs
We''d like to be welcomed with open arms and open legs — Andy Biersack
Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else. — Andre Gide
Other people are occupied, I alone am unwilling, like the outcast. — Lao Tzu
There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice. — Joseph Addison
If there's one thing I can't bear, it's when hundreds of old men come creeping in through the window in the middle of the night and throw all manner of garbage over me. I can't bear that. — Peter Cook
This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. Welcome and entertain them all! — Rumi
Once again...welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring. — Bram Stoker
Short Unwelcome Quotes
A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull. — Gertrude Stein
In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring. — Andre Gide
The searing light of morning
Asks unwelcome questions,
Fragile hopes soon blistered by daylight. — Scott Hastie
If you corner me, you are going to hear some unwelcome truths. — Mason Cooley
There is nothing that overwhelms the senses quite like an unwelcome silence. — Jack McDevitt
The future comes like an unwelcome guest. — Edmund Gosse
That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family. — Plautus
Trouble just seems to come my way-unbidden, unwelcome, unneeded. — Frank Sinatra
The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you. — Aidan Chambers
I was unwelcome in the U.S. for four years. — Boy George
If we do not fill our mind with prayer, it will fill itself with anxieties, worries, temptations, resentments, and unwelcome memories. — Scott Hahn
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills. — Voltaire
We should not laugh at the person who becoming caught up in his prayer bends his body or moves about in strange ways. Perhaps he moves in this manner to wave off unwelcome thoughts that would interrupt the prayer. Would we find it funny if we saw a person drowning going through strange motions doing whatever was necessary to save his life? — Baal Shem Tov
If inflation were to move up in ways that are unwelcome, we have the tools for that, and we will use them. No one should doubt that. — Jerome Powell
My role in all of this is very simple. I make clothing like armor. My clothing protects you from unwelcome eyes. — Yohji Yamamoto
I know a few things to be true. I do not know where I am going, where I have come from is disappearing, I am unwelcome and my beauty is not beauty here. My body is burning with the shame of not belonging, my body is longing. — Warsan Shire
If grace is so wonderful, why do we have such difficulty recognizing and accepting it? Maybe it's because grace is not gentle or made-to-order. It often comes disguised as loss, or failure, or unwelcome change. — Kathleen Norris
In the experiences of a year of the Presidency, there has come to me no other such unwelcome impression as the manifest religious intolerance which exists among many of our citizens. I hold it to be a menace to the very liberties we boast and cherish. — Warren G. Harding
Society had grown cruel. People who felt they were unwanted or unwelcome in their own country, reacted with aggression. There was no such thing as meaningless violence. Every violent act had a meaning for the person who committed it. Only when you dared accept this truth could you hope to turn society in another direction. — Henning Mankell
Spiritualism is but a baby now, an unwelcome stranger, whom public opinion, like an unnatural foster mother, tries to crush out of existence. — H. P. Blavatsky
All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. — George Orwell
Ironically, tendency to ignore inconvenient facts and unwelcome evidence is actually President Reagan's true legacy, as I noted in 'The Nation' back in 2000, before the current right-wing mania for President Reagan gained its full force. — Eric Alterman
The dream might have been more than a dream. It was as if a door in the wall of reality had come ajar... and now all sorts of unwelcome things were flying through. — Stephen King
We obviously don't want to cause problems for the Afghan government, President Hamid Karzai and the Afghan people. In fact, we want them to support our efforts on their behalf and not see us as unwelcome occupiers. — David Petraeus
The only way to deal with loss - as a horribly unwelcome guest that you know will show up eventually. And so you deny it and reject it and ignore it and laugh in its face. You toss it out into the street and push it away and fight it off, and only it has landed square in your lap, only then do you deal with it. — Michael Johnson
The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to honor, or to harass, the unfortunate mortal who shudders at her unwelcome caresses. — Agnes Repplier
Adversity is always unexpected and unwelcomed. It is an intruder and a thief. But in the hands of God, adversity becomes the means through which HIS Supernatural Power is demonstrated. — Charles Stanley
Negative emotions are like unwelcome guests. Just because they show up on our doorstep doesn't mean they have a right to stay. — Deepak Chopra
Anger is generally seen as an unwelcome presence in our midst, however natural it may be. Although each person, and each society, is charged with how anger is to be appropriately channeled, the denial of anger, or its continuous repression, is a deep source of our psychopathology and will invariably seek its expression in a less healthful fashion. — James Hollis
School presents daily exercises in dis-association. It forces unwelcome associations on most of its prisoners. It sets petty, meaningless competitions in motion on a daily basis, pitting potential associates against one another in contests for praise and other worthless prizes. — John Taylor Gatto
If the immigrant is responsible for assimilation of the country, and some of these people are in fact are born there. But if you find it unwelcoming to your own barbaric notions of equality, that is not on the country, that is on you. If you leave a horrible place, please leave your horrible practices behind. — Greg Gutfeld
A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures. — George Bernard Shaw
The history of science should not be an instrument to defend any kind of social or philosophic theory; it should be used only for its own purpose, to illustrate impartially the working of reason against unreason, the gradual unfolding of truth, in all its forms, whether pleasant or unpleasant, useful of useless, welcome or unwelcome. — George Sarton
I wanted to be an actor from a young age, but actually becoming one and seen the ugly side of the world does feel different and sometimes unwelcome. There are shallow, vapid, untalented people zombieing the streets of Hollywood, adding decadence and immorality to an already extravagant business. — Fran Kranz
If we can accept whatever hand we've been dealt - no matter how unwelcome - the way to proceed eventually becomes clear. — Phil Jackson
Concealment is equated, unknowingly to ourselves, with individuality; the more we conceal the more it seems we are asserting our very personality, resisting a somewhat repellent, unwelcome intrusion of other things into ourselves. — Eli Siegel
Hardest of all, as one becomes older, is to accept that sapient remarks can be drawn from the most unwelcome or seemingly improbable sources, and that the apparently more trustworthy sources can lead one astray. — Christopher Hitchens
Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation. — Warren Buffett
Few of the great creators have bland personalities. They are cantankerous egotists, the kind of men who are unwelcome in the modern corporation. — David Ogilvy
This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie. — Arthur Conan Doyle
All rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who dictate the curve and not vice versa. — Niels Bohr
The greatest mercy, I have often thought, of the Mediterranean coast lies in its mosquitoes. Did we not suffer from their unwelcome attention, we could not bear our holidays to end. — Winifred Holtby
The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
We suffer equal pain from the pertinacious adhesion of unwelcome images, as from the evanescence of those which are pleasing and useful. — Samuel Johnson
Self-censorship, whether known or unknown, is an unwelcome brake on creativity; it stifles self-expression and hence prevents a work from reaching the heights of great art. — Semir Zeki
Do not complain then of your poverty, my daughter, - we only complain of that which is unwelcome, and if poverty is unwelcome to you, you are no longer poor in spirit. — Saint Francis de Sales
Change, even if unwelcome, forces us to reevaluate what our best options are. Those times of transitions are great opportunities to look for recurring patterns in your life and make adjustments to build on the good and reduce the bad. — Dan Miller
Love is not only blind, but a fool, a stumbling mess falling backwards through showroom doors into atmospheres unwelcoming of his presence. — Alex Gaskarth
For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches. — Dorothy Dix
While the wealthiest families completely benefit from the tax cuts targeted towards the upper brackets, middle-income families were hit with the unwelcome surprise of higher taxes on tax day. — Tim Bishop
When the unwelcome little unborn shall have seen the light my brain will be lightened, and I shall have a clearer mind. Thank God that even this weary nine months shall come to an end and leave me in possession of my own body and my own soul. — Julia Ward Howe
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