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“Let me live in my house by the side of the road, Where the race of men go by; They are good, they are bad; they are weak, they are strong, Wise, foolish,--so am I; Then why should I sit in the scorner's seat, Or hurl the cynic's ban? Let me live in my house by the side of the road, And be a friend to man.”

Men Should House Strong Sides Race Wise Weak Let Me Foolish Seats Should I Hospitality Bans Cynic

Author:Sam Walter Foss

“My son loves the Hotel du Cap, in the south of France.”

Son South France Hotel My Son Hospitality Caps Sons Love

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“The mother must set the example in holding out the shrine as the heart of the house hold! She must enforce discipline over the children in personal cleanliness in humility and hospitality, in good manners and acts of service.”

Heart Children Mother House Example Humility Discipline Manners Good Man Hospitality Cleanliness Good Manners Shrines Acts Of Service

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.”

“Our little kinsmen after rain In plenty may be seen, a pink and pulpy multitude The tepid ground upon; A needless life if seemed to me Until a little bird As to a hospitality Advanced and breakfasted.”

Ifs May Littles Bird Rain Garden Plenty Multitudes Hospitality

Book:Poems: including variant readings critically compared with all known manuscripts

Source: Poems: including variant readings critically compared with all known manuscripts

“We need to bridge the gap between the medical libraries and the hospital rooms; take the information out there already, add to it, focus it, harness it - and bring it to the patient who was just diagnosed today.”

Needs Today Rooms Focus Information Add Patient Library Medical Bridges Hospitals Gaps Hospitality Harness

Author:Bruce Vento

“Do you want to sell sugar water all your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?”

World Want Motivation Water Leadership Sells Changing The World Sugar Hospitality

Author:Steve Jobs

“Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality.”

Died Hospitality Monument

Author:Maria Edgeworth

“If we had had the privilege of giving hospitality to a Ho Chi Minh, with what respect and interest we would have served him, as a man of vision, as a patriot, a rebel against foreign invaders.”

Ifs Men Giving Interest Vision Privilege Rebel Patriot Hospitality Invaders

Author:Dorothy Day

“In every human being one or the other of these two instincts is predominant: the active or positive instinct to offer hospitality, the negative or passive instinct to accept it. And either of these instincts is so significant of character that one might as well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.”

Humans Wells Two Character Might Human Beings Accepting Class Mankind Offers Negative Instinct Active Significant Host Guests Passive Hospitality

Book:And Even Now

Source: And Even Now

“Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the poorest Americans.”

Stills Pride Buried Hospitality Foreigners Poorest Hull House False Pride

Book:The Jane Addams Reader

Source: The Jane Addams Reader

“At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel.”

Mets Confusion Hotel Conventions Aesthetic Hospitality Aesthetics Annuals American Society Anesthetics

Book:Parables of Sun Light: Observations on Psychology, the Arts, and the Rest

Source: Parables of Sun Light: Observations on Psychology, the Arts, and the Rest

“The supply of good fellows is by no means in excess of the demand. A man has only to hoist the flag of hospitality to insure a very considerable amount of custom.”

Men Mean Amount Demand Fellows Customs Excess Flags Hospitality

Book:The novels of R.S. Surtees

Source: The novels of R.S. Surtees

“The study of tavern history often brings to light much evidence of sad domestic changes. Many a cherished and beautiful home, rich in annals of family prosperity and private hospitality, ended its days as a tavern.”

Home Light Beautiful Study Rich Evidence Prosperity Hospitality Taverns

Book:Stage-coach and Tavern Days

Source: Stage-coach and Tavern Days

“There is a special mystique to Texas. Texans represent many things to the uninitiated: We are bigger than life in our boots and Stetsons, rugged individualists whose two-steppin' has achieved world-wide acclaim, and we were the first to define hospitality.”

World Firsts Two Special Bigger Wide Texas Boots Hospitality Rugged Mystique Texan Acclaim Bigger Than Life

Author:Ann Richards

“Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men!”

Men Wilderness Hospitality

Author:Jeremiah

“I am simply in favor of intellectual hospitality-that is all. You come to me with a new idea. I invite you into the house. Let us see what you have. Let us talk it over. If I do not like your thought, I will bid it a polite "good day." If I do like it, I will say: "Sit down; stay with me, and become a part of the intellectual wealth of my world."”

Ifs World Ideas House Wealth Like You Intellectual Favors Openness Invites New Ideas Polite Hospitality Good Day Stay With Me

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“A Hospital is no place to be sick.”

Health Sick Witty Hospitals Hospitality

Author:Samuel Goldwyn

“Aside from hospitality and delicious food, our [restaurateurs'] job is to entertain people. Restaurants should make people feel special, excited and fulfilled.”

People Feels Should Jobs Special Excited Restaurants Fulfilled Delicious Hospitality Delicious Food

Author:Joe Bastianich

“My father was a guy who, because of the businesses he was in - the hotel business, the hospitality business - he didn't differentiate between the waiter serving you dinner, from the maitre d from the guy who owns a restaurant. Everybody was the same to him. He didn't look at who you were. He didn't look at your wallet.”

Looks Guy Father Dinner Restaurants Hotel Serving Hospitality Waiter Wallets Differentiate

Author:Steve Tisch

“What higher praise can we bestow on any one than to say of him that he harbors another's prejudices with a hospitality so cordial as to give him, for the time, the sympathy next best to, if indeed it be not edification in, charity itself. For what disturbs more and distracts mankind than the uncivil manners that cleave man from man?”

Ifs Men Giving Next Mankind Higher Prejudice Praise Charity Manners Hospitality Harbors Edification

Book:Concord Days

Source: Concord Days

“A semi-civilized state of society, equally removed from the extremes of barbarity and of refinement, seems to be that particular meridian under which all the reciprocities and gratuities of hospitality do most readily flourish and abound. For it so happens that the ease, the luxury, and the abundance of the highest state of civilization, are as productive of selfishness, as the difficulties, the privations, and the sterilities of he lowest.”

Source: Lacon: or, Many things in few words

“It is difficult to get rid of people when you once have given them too much pleasure.”

People Given Difficult Pleasure Too Much Hospitality

Book:The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846

Source: The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846

“True hospitality consists of giving the best of yourself to your guests.”

Giving Guests Hospitality

Book:Book of common sense etiquette

Source: Book of common sense etiquette

“A guest is really good or bad because of the host or hostess who makes being a guest an easy or a difficult task.”

Easy Difficult Tasks Host Guests Hospitality Difficult Tasks Hostesses

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“[Completely bored by a country weekend, wiring to a friend:] For heaven's sake, rush me a loaf of bread, enclosing saw and file.”

Country Heaven Saws Sake Bread Bored Weekend Hospitality Files Wiring

Author:Dorothy Parker

“Blest be that spot, where cheerful guests retire To pause from toil, and trim their evening fire; Blest that abode, where want and pain repair, And every stranger finds a ready chair Blest be those feasts with simple plenty crown'd, Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jest or pranks, that never fail, Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale, Or press the bashful stranger to his food, And learn the luxury of doing good.”

Source: Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With a New Life of the Author

“It is a widespread and firm belief among guests that their departure is always a matter of distress to their hosts, and that in order to indicate that they have been pleasantly entertained, they must demonstrate an extreme unwillingness to allow the entertainment to conclude. This is not necessarily true.”

Has Beens Matter Order Belief Entertainment Extremes Firm Host Guests Distress Hospitality Departure Firm Beliefs

Book:Miss Manners' Guide for the Turn-of-the-Millennium

Source: Miss Manners' Guide for the Turn-of-the-Millennium

“To me India is a land of beauty and generosity, of traditional hospitality and the acceptance of many cultures.”

Culture Land Acceptance India Traditional Generosity Hospitality

Author:Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

“Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.”

Delight Guests Leisure Hospitality Solace Ennui

Book:In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers

Source: In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers

“cowardice more than any other failing demands a ruthless paying of the price from those who give it hospitality.”

Giving Failing Demand Cowardice Hospitality Ruthless

Book:Green Dolphin Street

Source: Green Dolphin Street

“Hospitality, or flinging wide the door to friends and wayfarers alike, was once important, back in a world without motels or safety nets, where a friend might find his castle burnt down or a wayfarer find bandits on his trail.”

World Important Might Doors Safety Wide Trails Hospitality Castles Safety Net Bandits Motels

Book:Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories

Source: Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories

“Visiting is a pleasure; being visited is usually a mixed or ambivalent joy. ... The visitor can always go home; the visitee is already home, trapped like a rat in a drainpipe.”

Home Joy Pleasure Trapped Rats Hospitality Visiting Visitors Sociability Ambivalent

Author:Barbara Holland

“Entertaining is one method of avoiding people. It is very often the negation of hospitality.”

People Method Entertaining Avoiding Hospitality Negation

Author:Elizabeth Bibesco

“We shall always keep a spare corner in our heads to give passing hospitality to our friends' opinion.”

Giving Friendship Opinion Corners Passing Passings Spares Hospitality

Book:Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert

Source: Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert

“We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality.”

Should Heart May Rooms Opinion Corners Hospitality Head And Heart

Author:Joseph Joubert

“suffering is as necessary to entertaining as vermouth is to a Martini - a small but vital ingredient.”

Suffering Ingredients Entertaining Hospitality Martini

Book:Sixpence in Her Shoe

Source: Sixpence in Her Shoe

“Visitors should conform as much as possible to the habits and customs of the house. They should be moderate in their demands for personal attendance. They should not carry their moods into the drawing-room or to the table, and, whether they are bored or not, should be ready to contribute as much as in their power to an atmosphere of pleasure. If the above involves too much self-sacrifice, then an invitation to visit should by no means be accepted.”

“Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly.”

Ends Sometimes Madness Folly Hospitality Degenerates

Book:A History of English Literature: The Norman conquest to the dawn of Renaissance & Geoffrey Chaucer

Source: A History of English Literature: The Norman conquest to the dawn of Renaissance & Geoffrey Chaucer

“One uncongenial guest can ruin a dinner more easily than a poor salad, and that is saying a great deal.”

Poor Deals Dinner Ruins Guests Hospitality Salad

Book:Old Rose and Silver

Source: Old Rose and Silver

“As my guests leave even my most simple parties, I consistently hear the same thing: 'That was the best time I ever had,' and it's always me saying it. But I do know in my heart they all feel the same way, probably.”

Knows Way Feels Heart Simple Party My Heart Guests Consistently Hospitality Best Times

Author:Amy Sedaris

“There is nothing wrong with not wanting to be a hospitable person and have groups of people in your home touching your personables.”

People Persons Home Groups Touching Hospitality

Author:Amy Sedaris

“A guest should be permitted to graze, as it were, in the pastures of his host's kindness, left even to his own devices, like a rational being, and handsomely neglected.”

Should Past Left Kindness Rational Devices Host Guests Hospitality Neglected Pastures

Book:Goose-quill Papers

Source: Goose-quill Papers

“To entertain at home is both a relief and a rediscovery - of rooms and settings, of your favorite things, and particularly of your own tastes and ideas.”

Ideas Home Rooms Taste Setting Settings Relief Hospitality Favorites Things Your Favorite Rediscovery

Book:Entertaining

Source: Entertaining

“Hospitality is the key to new ideas, new friends, new possibilities. What we take into our lives changes us. Without new people and new ideas, we are imprisoned inside ourselves.”

People Ideas Our Lives Possibility Keys Life Changing New Ideas Hospitality New Friends New Possibilities

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“Hospitality is simply love on the loose.”

Hospitality Simply Love

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“My father's motto has always been 'Room in the heart, room in the house.' As charming as this sounds, it translates into a long line for the bathroom and extra loads of laundry for my mother.”

Heart Long Mother Father House Sound Lines Rooms Extras Load Translate Charming Motto Bathroom Hospitality Laundry Long Lines

Book:Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America

Source: Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America

“Turning your nose up at a genuine and sincere gesture of hospitality is no way to travel or to make friends around the world.”

World Way Genuine Around The World Noses Sincere Gestures Hospitality

Author:Anthony Bourdain

“Never try to make Americans or foreigners feel at home - had they wished to feel at home, they would have remained in their own county.”

Feels Trying Home Hospitality Foreigners County

Author:Rose Henniker Heaton

“There's a condensed softness about the Albanian people, and I've witnessed examples of their hospitality.”

People Running Blood Example Proud Veins Hospitality Softness Albanian

Author:Masiela Lusha

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