Quotes About Hospitality

After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.

Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance.

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

After three days houseguests and food begins to stink!

Now I have a sheep and cow, everybody bids me good morrow.

He who drinks his cider alone, let him catch his horse alone.

Our supper was only half an anchovy each, on a very little strip of bread and butter, and half a pint of ale between us; but the entertainment was in her conversation.

239Fish and Visitors stink after three days

therefore, feasted and invited to all

From my example, a great part of them left their muddling breakfast of beer, and bread, and cheese, finding they could with me be supplied from a neighboring house with a large porringer of hot water-gruel, sprinkled with pepper, crumbed with bread, and a bit of butter in it, for the price of a pint of beer, viz., three half-pence. This was a more comfortable as well as cheaper breakfast, and keep their heads clearer.

For it is only in company that eating is done justice; food must be divided and distributed if it is to be well received.

For me, food is about generosity, and this should reflect on the plate as well.

Your home is a kind of a reflection of your family, your life, where you're at, where you want to be, so I love to entertain people in it.

We have to treat people who cross our borders with a measure of dignity. Right? It has to be reflective of our values.

History has not looked kindly on us when we've prevented people fleeing violence from seeking refuge in this country.

All of us, as humans, as Americans, as people who are lucky enough to be a part of this country's ideals, should care about our neighbors seeking refuge.

I'm going to build a refugee home together with friends.

Israel is duty-bound to take in refugees.

When we were in Egypt, we were refugees. My family and I were homeless. For five years, out of all of the countries in the world that my father was contacting, the only one that took us in was England.

We need to protect immigrants who come here seeking a better life, rather than turning our backs on refugees and closing our borders and our hearts to others.

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

You need to build a place that is a touristic destination that brings in people from outside the region.

One day, I'll open my own restaurant or do something related to food, though I can't cook to save my life.

Kindness is a passport that opens doors and fashions friends. It softens hearts and molds relationships that can last lifetimes.