“The nomadic Semite… roves as a herdsman, partaking of Allah's hospitality.”
Source: Adventures in the Nearest East (1957), Ch.1 Exploring Edom and Moab
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“Hospitality sitting with Gladness.”
Translation from Frithiof's Saga.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“A hospital alone shows what war is.”
Paul after seeing the horrific state of wounded soldiers in a hospital near the front, Ch. 10
All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)
“A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.”
“Hospitality and sharing were characteristic of all Indian societies.”
Man's Rise to Civilization (1968)
Context: One of the things that amazed the earliest explorers, almost without exception, was the hospitality with which Indians received them. When the Indians later learned that the Whites posed a threat, their attitude changed, but the initial contacts were idyllic.... Hospitality and sharing were characteristic of all Indian societies.