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House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad. Erma Bombeck
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House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad. Erma Bombeck
Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, ‘A house guest,’ you’re wrong because I have just described my kids. Erma Bombeck
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are. Eleanor Roosevelt
Every house guest brings you happiness. Some when they arrive, and some when they are leaving Confucius
Fish and visitors stink in three days. Benjamin Franklin
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days. Benjamin Franklin
Mindfulness is developing an awareness of the thoughts and feelings that we move through without getting drawn into the meanings or taking action or getting sucked into the story. Like house guests, eventually they all leave. We become more attuned to being a container for those things and less identified with them. Barnet Bain
There’s such a gulf between yourself and who you were then, but people speak to that other person and it answers; it’s like having a stranger as a house guest in your skin. Barbara Kingsolver
People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them. Anton Chekhov
Guests stay where you’ve put them, and carry on doing whatever you suggested they do, until you suggest they stop and do something else. If you leave them drinking a cup of tea and looking through your holiday slides, they’re supposed to sit tight till you ask them to come and string beans in your … Read more