Quotes About Hospitality

Minibars are very appealing, especially when someone else is paying.

I've gotten to play so many of the great courses around the country and overseas. Sometimes it pays to be the golf guy. People always want to take me to the golf course. I love it.

The Peninsula - it's a combination of great service and good design.

That's how my mom was. She did that. She went out of her way to say hi to people or to speak to people. She was a people person.

People say they get a warmness from me.

For Indians, chai resolves most things, consoles for the things it can't.

It's not an accident that the best cooking in Tuscany is found at home. It's the place where Tuscans' passionate love for food meets their passionate love for family and friends.

I met two or three men who were very kind to me. There was a magistrate who couldn't stand priests, and a priest who didn't have a good word to say for magistrates; and there was a landlord who let furnished rooms by the hour and spoke highly of both priests and magistrates, because both were his best clients.

A guest sees more in an hour than the host in a year.

Visits always give pleasure — if not the arrival, the departure.

Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure.

Walau orang gunung kami tahu menghormat, tahu bagaimana sebaiknya menerima tamu. Ia akan mengambil celana untuk menghormati kami. (Orang-orang gunung ito bodo, tapi kase hormat. Yako punya hati ingin hormat) - Bambu, Seorang Alfuru Di Wai Loa

Seorang pelayan wanita menghidangkan susu coklat dan kue. Dan pelayan itu tidak datang merangkak-rangkak seperti pada majikan Pribumi. Malah dia melihat padaku seperti menyatakan keheranan. Tak mungkin yang demikian terjadi pada majikan Pribumi: dia harus menunduk, menunduk terus. Dan alangkah indah kehidupan tanpa merangkak-rangkak di hadapan orang lain.

Di sini tak ada rumah yang terkunci pintunya, siang ataupun malam. Di sini pintu bukanlah dibuat untuk menolak manusia, tapi menahan angin. Di sini semua orang tidur di ambin pada malam atau siang hari, termasuk para tamu yang tak pernah dipedulikan dari mana datangnya. Ia mendengar sekali lagi. Di kota setiap orang baru selalu ditetak dengan tanya: Siapa nama? Dari mana? Di sini orang tak peduli Mak Pin datang dari mana. Tak peduli Mak Pin gagu. Tak peduli sekalipun dia kelahiran neraka.

Ruapanya orang gunung hanya bercawat setiap hari. Mereka baru berpakaian bila ada tamu atau pada kesempatan-kesempatan terentu.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

You need not hang up the ivy branch over the wine that will sell.

People have always imagined, or pretended to imagine, that I seek to provoke hostile attention. This is rubbish. What I want is to be accepted by other people without bevelling down my individuality to please them — because if I do that, all the attention, all the friendship, all the hospitality that I receive is really for somebody else of the same name.

Can Miss Himmelsteen get you a tasty beverage?

Above all, the very world view, "Every town our home town, every[one our kin - ?????? ??? ??????? ??????]" can only emanate from a civilizational wisdom which has seen places, found merit in give and take and is enriched by travels, journeys and migrations.

Wealth is not of necessity a curse, nor poverty a blessing. Wholesome and easy abundance is better than either extreme; better for our manhood that we have enough for daily comfort; enough for culture, for hospitality, for charity. More than this may or may not be a blessing. Certainly it can be a blessing only by being accepted as a trust.

home and make a meal for myself and my son, that we may eat it—and die." 1 Kings 17:8–12

How can one scandalize a maitre d'hotel? Such a man has seen it all before. And if one did succeed in subjecting him to scandal, I don't believe his face would express his condition.

Chanakya says that a guest is important only if his stay is short. If without hesitation or shamelessly he extends his stay, then it is graceless, as a prostitute leaves a poor man, the subjects leave a defeated king and birds leave a dead tree, similarly, a guest must quickly leave after having and praising the food, offered to him.