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But every tribe, every people, has values that they associate with elegance: hospitality, respect, good manners.
Paulo Coelho
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
Indian hotels are doing well globally because they understand hospitality.
Zubin Mehta
Peace is an awareness of reserves from beyond ourselves, so that our power is not so much in us as through us. Peace is the gift, not of volitional struggle, but of spiritual hospitality.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
What does cooking mean It means the knowledge of Media and of Circe, and of Calypso, and Sheba. It means knowledge of all herbs, and fruits. and balms and spices.... I means the economy of your great-grandmother and the science of modern chemistry, and French art, and Arabian hospitality. It means, in fine, that your are to see imperatively, that everyone has something nice to eat.
John Ruskin
No, Sir, you will have much more influence by giving or lending money where it is wanted, than by hospitality.
Samuel Johnson
I've been to the Reading festival twice before-as a punter, though I stayed backstage in the hospitality tent.
Bruce Dickinson
What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they [the Hurricane Katrina refugees in the Houston Astrodome] all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.
Barbara Bush
HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.
Ambrose Bierce
This just might do nobody any good. At the end of this discourse a few people may accuse this reporter of fouling his own comfortable nest, and your organization may be accused of having given hospitality to heretical and even dangerous thoughts.
Edward R. Murrow
No one of this nation ever begs, for the houses of all are common to all; and they consider liberality and hospitality amongst the first virtues.
Gerald of Wales
The charity of the Gospel must extend to all religions and the French hospitality to all people.
Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
Never have I witnessed such sincere hospitality and the overwhelming spirit of true brotherhood as is practiced by people of all colours and races here in this ancient Holy Land, the home of Abraham, Muhammad, and all the other prophets of the Holy Scriptures. For the past week, I have been utterly speechless and spellbound by the graciousness I see displayed all around me by people of all colours.
Malcolm X
Israel has, enjoys bipartisan support - both Democrats and Republicans - and we extend bipartisan hospitality to both Democrats and Republicans.
Benjamin Netanyahu
Until the "time of troubles” starting in the late '70s, Afghans were proverbial in their hospitality and readiness to welcome foreigners. Over two decades, an estimated 1.2 million young Westerners traveled there in search of the mythical east - without facing any hostility. As for misogyny, Afghanistan was among the first Muslim countries to declare education compulsory for both boys and girls. From the '60s, it had women doctors, professors, parliamentarians and even Cabinet ministers.
Amir Taheri
Our little kinsmen after rain In plenty may be seen, A pink and pulpy multitude The tepid ground upon A needless life it seemed to me Until a little bird As to a hospitality Advanced and breakfasted.
Emily Dickinson
This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself. Keep your mind open to the influences of nature. Receive new thoughts with hospitality. Let us advance.
Robert G. Ingersoll
Hospitality a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Christmas was close at hand, in all his bluff and hearty honesty it was the season of hospitality, merriment, and open-heartedness the old year was preparing, like an ancient philosopher, to call his friends around him, and amidst the sound of feasting and revelry to pass gently and calmly away.
Charles Dickens
The hospitality of primitive peoples, respect for human life, the sense of reciprocal obligation, compassion for the weak, courage, extending even to the sacrifice of self for others which is first learnt for the sake of children and friends, and later for that of members of the same community - all these qualities are developed in man anterior to all law, independently of all religion, as in the case of the social animals.
Peter Kropotkin
The Roman Nobility are not fond of strangers, and you will observe that extreme hospitality is only found where visitors are scarce.
Peter Beckford
Why did not Indians enter White society, particularly in view of the numerous attempts by Whites to "civilize" them? The answer is that White settlers possessed no traditions and institutions comparable to the Indians' hospitality and sharing, adoption, and complete social integration. ...Whites who educated Indians did so with the idea that the Indians would return to their own people as missionaries to spread the gospel, not that they might become functioning parts of White society.
Peter Farb
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