Guests Quotes

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
Benjamin Franklin

After, Days, Fish

The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Good, Advantage, Pleased

House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.
Erma Bombeck

Bad, Long, Leave

In the end we're all Jerry Springer Show guests, really, we just haven't been on the show.
Marilyn Manson

End, Show, Jerry

On the road we're somebody else's guests - and we play in a way that they're not going to forget we visited them.
Knute Rockne

Forget, Play, Else

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.
James Dobson

Home, Future, Children

Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.
Max Beerbohm

Humility, Virtue, Innate

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

God, House, Promise

One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
Max Beerbohm

Great, Two, Might

People are either born hosts or born guests.
Max Beerbohm

Born, Either, Hosts

You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.
Pope Paul VI

Life, Control, Rather

All of the guests on 'Faces of America' were deeply moved by what we revealed about their ancestry. We were able to trace the ancestry of Native American writer Louise Erdrich back to 438 A.D. We found that Queen Noor is descended from royalty, and that's before she married King Hussein of Jordan.
Henry Louis Gates

Before, America, American

You notice patterns. White guests often are mortified - that word again - when they learn their ancestors owned slaves. But I've never had a black guest who was upset to learn about white ancestry that probably involved forced sexual relations.
Henry Louis Gates

Black, Learn, Again

To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

Good, Money, Wine

I like when guests come over early and we chop veggies and talk and play music.
John Stamos

Music, Play, Talk

It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there.
Elsie de Wolfe

Happiness, Men, Home

We set up one rule in our house, which is, 'Guests of guests cannot bring guests.' That rule was required because that happened one weekend, and we finally said, 'Okay, you know what? That's a little too much.'
Elizabeth Gilbert

Cannot, Said, Weekend

We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.
Jeff Bezos

Experience, Job, Important

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
Tom Peters

Successful, Treat, Magic

One of the biggest mistakes people make when they cook for other people is to think that it has to be fancy and elaborate. This results in enormous expense and nine days of labor, plus you end up trying to assemble a croquembouche in front of your guests and everyone's experiencing flop sweat.
Ted Allen

Mistakes, End, Trying

It's okay if you finish cooking something easy after your guests arrive - some dishes must be prepared a la minute, as chefs say. Just remember to keep talking.
Ted Allen

Remember, After, Keep

Never let 'em see you sweat. Guests feel guilty if they think you've worked too hard to make dinner for them - which of course you have!
Ina Garten

Hard, Guilty, Worked

CNN is getting smarter, and you can feel it in the stories, you can feel it in the depth with which they're covered, the kinds of people in terms of guests who are brought on air, the way in which issues are discussed.
Fareed Zakaria

Getting, Stories, Kinds

Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other things; therefore, His gifts, which He is offering to everyone unceasingly, must remain outside.
Johannes Tauler

Love, Soul, Cannot

It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.
Rachael Ray

Food, Everything, Else

Like when I host a party. I hope my guests get along. But if not, how interesting!
Andy Cohen

Hope, Party, Along

As a kid I would be put to bed when my parents had guests and because I was such a show-off I would go to my mum's room, put on her nightdress and Jackie Onassis shawl, run downstairs, go outside, ring the doorbell and pretend to be one of the guests. I'd say, 'Hello, I'm Mrs. So-and-So.'
Rupert Everett

Parents, Put, Her

The most important thing for having a party is that the hostess is having fun. I'm very organized. I make a plan for absolutely everything. I never have anything that has to be cooked while the guests are there. The only thing I might have to do is take something out of the oven and carve it.
Ina Garten

Fun, Important, Everything

When I was a kid, I was obsessed with this idea of opening a restaurant back in Indiana on a little pond. The guests would order their dinner and then take a little boat out with a colored flag on the front of it. When the matching color of the flag on their boat went up on a flag pole, their dinner was ready!
Greg Kinnear

Idea, Order, Color

Now, having had this experience, I can't say really what they were looking for. I don't know their minds. But every time I see a reality show, it seems that the most entertaining parts on other reality shows are when they make their guests look foolish.
Liza Minnelli

Time, Experience, Reality

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