Guest

Famous quotes containing the word guest:

    “This guest of summer,
    The temple-haunting martlet, does approve,
    By his loved mansionry, that the heaven’s breath
    Smells wooingly here.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Geez, if I could get through to you, kiddo, that depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling. Reduction, see? Of all feeling. People who keep stiff upper lips find that it’s damn hard to smile.”
    —Judith Guest (b. 1936)

    “When mother’s relatives visited,
    delicacies were cooked.
    When father’s guest arrrived,
    mother swelled and had a fit.”
    —Punjabi proverb, trans. by Gurinder Singh Mann.