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Quotes About Hospitality

I never turn down a drink. Among friends 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.
~ Sholom Aleichem
There is a particular hapiness in giving a man whom you like very much, good food that you have cooked yourself.
~ Isak Dinesen
There's nothing wrong with most men's egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can't cure.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.
~ Benjamin Franklin
The tearoom lady called me love. All the shop ladies called me love and most of the men called me mate. I hadn't been here twelve hours and already they loved me.
~ Bill Bryson
Nothing like a cup of tea to make a person feel better, man or woman.
~ Daphne du Maurier
The odour of Burgundy, and the smell of French sauces, and the sight of clean napkins and long loaves, knocked as a very welcome visitor at the door of our inner man.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
A man may surely be allowed to take a glass of wine by his own fireside.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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.
~ Robert Smith Surtees
It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially - like inviting a man to dinner then spitting in his eye.
~ David Ogilvy
An old man came on board my boat; the others, both men and women cried with loud voices: "Come and see the men who have come from the sky. Bring them victuals and drink."
~ Christopher Columbus
Dieting is murder on the road. Show me a man who travels and I'll show you one who eats.
~ Bruce Froemming
The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host.
~ Theophrastus
It is little the sign of a wise or good man, to suffer temperance to be transgressed in order to purchase the repute of a generous entertainer.
~ Francis Atterbury
As refined fare serves a hungry man as well as and no better than coarser food, the more pretentious artist will not dream of inviting the hungry man to his meal.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
He came up and, with a broad Australian accent, said, "G'day, mate." Uh-oh, I thought. I'm in trouble.
~ Terri Irwin
From the very first, I was welcomed into the Irwin family. The greatest thing was that I felt Lyn and Bob loved me not just because I was married to Steve, but for myself, for who I was. That gave me confidence to feel at home as a new arrival to Australia.
~ Terri Irwin
anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me. We have more
~ Terry James
A stranger who is kind is a kinsman; an unkind kinsman is a stranger.
~ The Hitopadesa
Even in incredible churches, very few members make the effort to greet and speak to someone already seated before the service begins. And, frankly, most church members don't ever go sit with guests. Guests are most often overlooked in the few minutes right before the worship services. No one speaks to them or sits with them.
~ Thom S. Rainer
Many guests really want to know, "What's next?" Is your church ready to answer them?
~ Thom S. Rainer
Good church signage is a statement of your church's hospitality. It means you are expecting guests; and it means you desire for guests to come to your church.
~ Thom S. Rainer
Vibrant and living churches look after the interests of others. They are concerned for their communities. They open the door for others.
~ Thom S. Rainer
Did you get that? Vibrant and living churches look after the interests of others. They are concerned for their communities. They open the door for others.
~ Thom S. Rainer