Quotes About Hospitality

Extending hospitality to all, even to the most cloddish, truly is the basis of civilization. The fact that the most cloddish, having nothing better to do, always show up and spoil the party for everyone else probably spells civilization's ultimate doom.

Glad to eat ya', I mean meet ya' - Digger

Next Clay gave the house rules for living with theSorrentinos , which sounded a lot like the Ten Commandments. Thou shall not lie, steal anything, kill anyone, disrespect your hosts or covet any of Nick's girlfriends. And if you break the rules, you'll get your ass kicked and handed to you in pieces—a part I suspect God left out.

A waiter appeared, and Gus said: "Bring coffee for my guests, please, and a plate of ham sandwiches." He deliberately did not ask them what they wanted. He had seen Woodrow Wilson act like this with people he wanted to intimidate.

She served supper at midnight.

But now he realized that, as a Jew, you could go anywhere in the world and always find someone to treat you like family.

They had paid her the compliment of coming to her door without an invitation, knowing they would be welcomed. They belonged to her, and she to them. They were, she realized, her family.

Grout, o mordomo, serviu-lhe café com as mãos enluvadas e ela apanhou um pêssego em uma fruteira.

había recogido a un europeo en una carretera.

Lloyd held the door and

La comida no era tan buena como la que le servían en su casa, pero la atmósfera era muy tranquila. Los sillones del saloncito para fumadores eran antiguos y cómodos, los camareros eran mayores y lentos, el papel de la pared estaba descolorido y la pintura había perdido color. Todavía tenían luz de gas. Los hombres como Walden acudían allí porque sus casas les resultaban excesivamente limpias y femeninas. —Dijo usted que casi lo habían

We'll see if tea and buns can make the world a better place.

The prayer for our bread includes the neighbors. It is our Father and our bread.

Peace is an awareness of reserves from beyond ourselves, so that our power is not so much in us as through us. Peace is the gift, not of volitional struggle, but of spiritual hospitality.

Hospitality invites to prayer before it checks credentials, welcomes to the table before administering the entrance exam.

Prayers and Provender hinder no Journey.

80% of the people who come into a Christ-following relationship is because a friend, co-worker, family member or neighbor invited them to church.

The people in your life who don't need an invitation still like to get one.

Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet

Dessert is probably the most important stage of the meal, since it will be the last thing your guests remember before they pass out all over the table.

What think you, if he were conveyed to bed, Wrapped in sweet clothes, rings put upon his fingers, A most delicious banquet by his bed, And brave attendants near him when he wakes, Would not the beggar then forget himself?

Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.

Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used; exclaim no more against it.

A morsel for a monarch.