Famous quotes containing the word guest:
“This guest of summer,
The temple-haunting martlet, does approve,
By his loved mansionry, that the heavens breath
Smells wooingly here.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“When mothers relatives visited,
delicacies were cooked.
When fathers guest arrrived,
mother swelled and had a fit.”
—Punjabi proverb, trans. by Gurinder Singh Mann.
“Entertaining angels unawares: It is always we who are to entertain the angels, and never they us. I cannot, however, think that an angel would be a very entertaining person, either as guest or host.”
—Samuel Butler (18351902)
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