Host or hosts may refer to:
- A person who provides hospitality
- Host or sacramental bread
- Host (biology), organism harboring another organism on or in itself
- Host (psychology), "personality" emphasized in treating dissociative identity disorder
- Host (radio), the presenter or announcer on a radio show
- Host, headwaiter (Maître d' or Maître d'hôtel) of a restaurant or hotel
- Host, Pennsylvania
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Famous quotes containing the word host:
“Thrust, my daughter or son, to escape, there is none, none, none,
Nor when all ponderous heavens host of waters breaks.”
—Dylan Thomas (19141953)
“The white man regards the universe as a gigantic machine hurtling through time and space to its final destruction: individuals in it are but tiny organisms with private lives that lead to private deaths: personal power, success and fame are the absolute measures of values, the things to live for. This outlook on life divides the universe into a host of individual little entities which cannot help being in constant conflict thereby hastening the approach of the hour of their final destruction.”
—Policy statement, 1944, of the Youth League of the African National Congress. pt. 2, ch. 4, Fatima Meer, Higher than Hope (1988)
“Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (18051859)