| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. | | | | Guest |
| | | A pretty woman is a welcome guest. Byron. | 1 |
| | Unbidden guests |
| Are often welcomest when they are gone. |
Shakespeare. | 2 |
| | Here’s our chief guest. |
| If he had been forgotten, |
| It had been as a gap in our great feast. |
Shakespeare. | 3 |
| | For I, who holds sage Homer’s rule the best, |
| Welcome the coming, speed the going guest. |
Pope. | 4 |
| | See, your guests approach: |
| Address yourself to entertain them sprightly, |
| And let’s be red with mirth. |
Shakespeare. | 5 |
| Some steam process should be invented for arranging guests when they are above five hundred. Beaconsfield. | 6 |
| The first day a man is a guest, the second a burden, the third a pest. Laboulaye. | 7 |
| | 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 honor you. |
Shelley. | 8 |
| | For whom he means to make an often guest, |
| One dish shall serve; and welcome make the rest. |
Joseph Hall. | 9 | | |
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