Nowadays the host does not admit you to his hearth, but has got th

Nowadays the host does not admit you to his hearth, but has got the mason to build one for yourself somewhere in his alley, and hospitality is the art of keeping you at the greatest distance. – Henry David Thoreau

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Hospitality
category

And with our broth, and bread, and bits, sir friend,
Youve fared well : pray make an end ;
Two days youve larded here ; a third, ye know,
Makes guests and fish smell strong ; pray go – Robert Herrick

Category:
Hospitality

Im sure I dont know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldnt like to. – Oscar Wilde

Category:
Hospitality

Coleridge says that to bait a mouse-trap is as much as to say to the mouse, Come and have a piece of cheese, and then, when it accepts the invitation, to do it to death is a betrayal of the laws of hospitality. – Robert Lynd

Category:
Hospitality

I have heard people eat most heartily of another mans meat, that is, what they do not pay for. – William Wycherley

Category:
Hospitality

Random Quotes

A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour. – Elbert Hubbard

Category:
Committees

Throughout the illness the most obviously exciting cause of the attacks was posture, stopping over a writing-desk; and he ultimately had to do such work either kneeling or at a standing desk. – Lawson Tait, 1882

Category:
Sitting

Teamwork is essential — it allows you to blame someone else. – Author Unknown

Category:
Teamwork

But they are useless. They can only give you answers. – Pablo Picasso, about computers

Category:
Computers