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For whom he means to make an often guest, One dish shall serve; and welcome make the rest.

Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.

Sometimes, when guests have gone, the host remembers Sweet courteous things unsaid. We two have talked our hearts out to the embers, And now go hand in hand down to the dead.

Hail, guest, we ask not what thou art; If friend, we greet thee, hand and heart; If stranger, such no longer be; If foe, our love shall conquer thee.

No, truly, 'tis more than manners will; And I have heard it said, unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone.

Here's our chief guest. If he had been forgotten, It had been as a gap in our great feast, And all-thing unbecoming.

Gentle my lord, sleek o'er your rugged looks; Be bright and jovial among your guests to-night.

Methinks a father Is at the nuptial of his son a guest That best becomes the table.

See, your guests approach. Address yourself to entertain them sprightly, And let's be red with mirth.

You must come home with me and be my guest; You will give joy to me, and I will do All that is in my power to honour you.

To the guests that must go, bid God's speed and brush away all traces of their steps.

Fish and visitors stink after three days.

Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone.

A civil guest Will no more talk all, than eat all the feast.

When hospitality becomes an art, it loses its very soul.