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Quotes About Visitors

Be sure to put the knocker fairly low on your door in case a very small friend drops by.
~ A. A. Milne
They are clean, dressed and coiffed neatly, and seem serene. They look and act like "normal" shoppers, gamblers, dawdlers, and visitors, but "they" are solo homeless women—mainly over forty years of age and surprisingly well educated—who blend into polite society.
~ Unknown
Elsewhere in Italy is the lovely city of Venice, which each year attracts millions of visitors despite the fact that it is basically an enormous open sewer.
~ Dave Barry
We still lend our old house out to relatives. They keep a guest book for my fans to sign.
~ Loretta Lynn
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
~ Benjamin Franklin
A rooster crowing in a doorway means visitors are coming. An old Scottish superstition. The
~ Unknown
We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home.
~ Australian Aboriginal Proverb
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Someone knocked on his front door, someone brave because Rylan knew he'd not been fit company for anyone.
~ Mary Connealy
Nixon sent some no-account underling to tell us that he had done more for the American Indian than any predecessor and that he saw no reason for our coming to Washington, that he had more important things to do than to talk with us—presumably surreptitiously taping his visitors and planning Watergate. We wondered what all these good things were that he had done for us.
~ Unknown
recognize you Ã¢â'¬Â¦." "We're just visiting," said Annie. "But we know all about you. You're Sir Lancelot, aren't you?" "Yes," breathed the knight. "And Sir Percival and Sir Galahad," said Jack. "Yes Ã¢â'¬Â¦ my son, Galahad Ã¢â'¬Â¦ ," said the knight. "King Arthur thinks you are lost forever," said Annie.
~ Mary Pope Osborne
We are the visitors in the lives of others; we visit them and we disappear!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Magic is just science we do not comprehend yet; perhaps the angelic and the demonic are visitors from unknown lands.
~ Michael Scott
Govt office staffs have agreed that COVID is a fake propaganda, but they are forced to wear masks and also compel visitors to wear masks or else they pay penality and even lose jobs.
~ Unknown
How does life treat me? Life is the 'I' or divine Ego, and the 'ME' is the corporeal part. We are all visitors, I treat it well and it does the same to me.
~ Unknown
Although remote, the park can be busy during summer days. Savvy visitors know to camp out or at least arrange to be on-site at dusk:
~ Unknown
Despite today's notions of Atlantic City as a vacation spot for the wealthy, the resort could never have survived by catering to the upper class. It was the lower-middle and lower classes that were the lifeblood of Atlantic City. They comprised the great mass of visitors to the resort and the rates of most rooms were structured for them.
~ Unknown
The only 18th-century writer to be revived by the admiration of our contemporaries is de Sade. Visitors to a palace who admire nothing but the latrines.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
In the world of old memories, there's room for visitors
~ Nobuhiro Watsuki
"Sir Jasper Finch-Farrowmere?" said Wilfred."ffinch-ffarrowmere," corrected the visitor, his sensitive ear detecting the capital letters.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
Some things simply were too true to stay. Some merely came to visit for a while.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
It's everyone who ever lived in London. That was what the sign above the entrance to Hell had said. He saw it in his memories every day. He had so many questions. He worried about what that meant in practice. He'd seen, in Hell, people from all time periods. Did 'everyone' include visitors to London? Was one night at a Holiday Inn in Clapham enough to sentence you to eternal damnation? Better
~ Unknown
We shall soon have to build heavily insulated cloisters where neither radio waves nor newspapers can come, in which ignorance of all politics will be guarded and cultivated. Speed, numbers, effects of surprise, contrast, repetition, size novelty, and credulity will be despised there. And thither, on certain days, visitors will come, to look through the iron bars at a few specimens of free men.
~ Paul Valery