Quotes About Hospitality

I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.

Cooking is one of the great gifts you can give to those you love. It says "you're important enough to me to spend the time and effort to cook for you.

May you always have walls for the winds, a roof for the rain, tea beside the fire, laughter to cheer you, those you love near you, and all your heart might desire.

Laughter is brightest, in the place here the food is.

Laughter is brightest where food is best.

May you have warm words on a cool evening, a full moon on a dark night, and a smooth road all the way to your door.

The secret is treating family like guests and guests like family,

Cooking was a passion and sometimes a serious art form, to be shared with a select few.

A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum.

We took a bowl each and started eating. He went back into the little room, and by the time he returned to the table with his own bowl of food to eat with us, we had already finished. He was shocked and looked around to see if we had done something else with the food.

An Albanian's house is the dwelling of God and the guest.' Of God and the guest, you see. So before it is the house of its master, it is the house of one's guest. The guest, in an Albanian's life, represents the supreme ethical category, more important than blood relations. One may pardon the man who spills the blood of one's father or of one's son, but never the blood of a guest.

In the midst of a thick forest, there was a castle that gave shelter to all travelers overtaken by night on their journey: lords and ladies, royalty and their retinue, humble wayfarers.

An honest ale-house where we shall find a cleanly room, lavender in the windows, and twenty ballads stuck about the wall.

Our example in this is the ultimate Servant Jesus, who came to serve but graciously accepted the service of others—people like His hosts Mary and Martha, the use of the colt He rode into Jerusalem, and others.

Oh well... I'd just been thinking, if you had died, you'd have been welcome to share my toilet.

I like to consider my mind an open door. It's just not a revolving door.

Visitors should behave in such a way that the host and hostess feel at home.

Mr Salteena was an elderly man of 42 and was fond of asking people to stay with him

Home is where you feel at home and are treated well.

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My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.

It seems that Good Time Charley always keeps a stock of rock candy and rye whisky on hand for touches of the grippe, and he gives me a few doses immediately, and in fact Charley takes a few doses with me, as he says there is no telling but what I am scattering germs of my touch of the grippe all around the joint, and he must safe-guard his health.

My father was the guy on the block who said hi to everyone.

Attitude must come by the gallon with the wine around here