Quotes About Hospitality

There's something wonderful about entertaining people on vacation. Everyone is there to have a good time.

On their return from a trip, it is wise to see friends promptly, before they've had time to get their pictures developed.

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

When I travel, I like to take advantage of room service. I'm really into eggs Benedict in the morning.

In a Ramada Inn near the grapevine, they stop to rest for the night. Traveling down south, looking for good times. Visiting old friends feels right.

If I tell a hotel I'm a travel writer, I can't get out of there without spending a few hours looking at every single room!

Travel around the world is amazing. New people. New-found family, really.

When we can't get away for a vacation we get the same feeling by staying home and tipping every person that smiles.

May my life be like a great hospitable tree, and may weary wanderers find in me a rest.

He who sows courtesy reaps friendship.

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.

We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream.

People love to be nice, but you must give them the chance.

Do we dress with dignity, with a reflection of beauty? The entire world is wearing blue jeans and a black tee shirt. A banal sameness has covered us like wings of a black bird. Do we dress as if we were to meet Mevlana Jalauddin? Is our house clean, prepared for the possibility of a visit from Mevlana?

And to leave the people we meet and the places we visit better than we found them.

The French have the right respect for dogs--in France we chiens get to go to lunch and dinner anytime, anywhere.

Was I trying to kill my cousin? He who was so kind to let me live and not drink my blood at tea?

It might be nice to have my own place if I should have a gentleman caller

Indians expect to be force-fed when they visit other homes, and they relish the attention. In fact, Indians of my grandmother's generation think it rude and walk away in a huff if the host doesn't entreat them to eat, eat, and eat some more.

I never turn down a drink. Among friend's it's always appropriate. A man is only a man as they say but brandy is still brandy. You'll find that in the Talmud too.

SIMPLICITY is practicing a lifestyle that is increasingly free of excess, greed, covetousness, and other forms of dependence on the things of this world. The Holy Spirit works through simplicity to release spiritual gifts such as hospitality, mercy, and giving... to live free of anxiety, and to better take care of this Earth.

at Prusianum, as the other (estate) is called, (the young) Tonantius and his brothers turned out of their beds for us because we could not be always dragging our gear about: they are surely the elect among the nobles of our own age

Your whole house smells of dog, says someone who comes to visit. I say I'll take care of it. Which I do by never inviting that person to visit again.

And together we're going to make the McMurtry farm the best damn small farm/ venue/ vacation spot the world has ever seen.