Plutarch (46–127) ancient Greek historian and philosopher
Life of Solon
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Alike he thwarts the hospitable end,
Who drives the free, or stays the hasty friend:
True friendship's laws are by this rule expressed,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.”
XV. 72–74 (tr. Alexander Pope).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
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“Life that dares send
A challenge to his end,
And when it comes, say, Welcome, friend!”
Richard Crashaw (1612–1649) British writer
Wishes for the Supposed Mistress
“For a guest remembers all his days the hospitable man who showed him kindness.”
XV. 54–55 (tr. G. H. Palmer).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
W.B. Yeats book The Tower
Youth And Age http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1762/ <br class="br">The Tower (1928)
“Comfort comes as a guest; lingers to become the host,- and stays to enslave us.”
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
Variant: Comfort comes as a guest; lingers to become the host,- and stays to enslave us.
Marsha Blackburn (1952) American politician
What I Saw During Our Vote To Secure The Border https://www.redstate.com/diary/marshablackburn/2014/08/06/saw-vote-secure-border/ (August 6, 2014)
John Augustus Shedd (1859) writer
Salt from My Attic (1928), The Mosher Press, Portland, Maine; cited in The Yale Book of Quotations (2006) ed. Fred R. Shapiro, p. 705; there are numerous variants of this expression.
William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer
" On The Conduct of Life" http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/Hazlitt/ConductLife.htm (1822), reprinted in The Collected Works of William Hazlitt (1902-1904)
