
“What is pleasanter than the tie of host and guest?”
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), The Libation Bearers, line 702
22nd April 1826) The Death-Feast (under the pen name Iole
The London Literary Gazette, 1826
“What is pleasanter than the tie of host and guest?”
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), The Libation Bearers, line 702
“Comfort comes as a guest; lingers to become the host,- and stays to enslave us.”
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
Variant: Comfort comes as a guest; lingers to become the host,- and stays to enslave us.
“Love is a gracious host to his guests though to the unbidden his house is a mirage and a mockery.”
John At Patmos: Jesus The Gracious
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
Context: Love is a gracious host to his guests though to the unbidden his house is a mirage and a mockery.
Now you would have me explain the miracles of Jesus.
We are all the miraculous gesture of the moment; our Lord and Master was the centre of that moment.
Yet it was not in His desire that His gestures be known.
“I don't know why people always assume that the guest is more interesting than the host.”
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee (2012 — Present), Season 3 (2014)
Principles of Modern Chemistry (7th ed., 2012), Ch. 3 : Classical Bonding: The Classical Description
World-Strangeness, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Source: Hospitality; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 379.