Erma Bombeck Quotes

No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.

it is bad manners to contradict a guest. You must never insult people in your own house - always go to theirs.

Fish and visitors stink in three days.

To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself.

For a host, above all, must be kind to his guests.

Fish and guests in three days are stale.

Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries.

If my girls are rude, it's over. There is no place in the world for it.

If I go to your home, and you're cooking me a meal, I will eat whatever you put in front of me.

I was always the Southern gentleman.

To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be.

I'd seen people overstay their welcome and I didn't want that to happen at all.

The Gandhi family has a tradition of being good hosts. When you call upon them, they treat you with a lot of respect.

No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people.

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.

Freedom without rules doesn't work. And communities do not work unless they are regulated by etiquette.

I think if you've been invited to someone's house, you eat what they serve you. Even if you leave hungry, you be gracious enough to eat what they've prepared.

You've got to listen to your guests.

Never treat the audience disrespectfully.

Smooth functioning of social life has always depended on the recognition of certain basic limits to behavior. We cannot simply say or do anything we wish, or offend people, without paying consequences - isolation, ostracism, etc.

When writing a thank-you if you've had lunch with someone downtown, send an e-mail. If somebody is giving you a dinner party in his or her home and all the work that takes, that person deserves a written thank-you.

Entertaining those who come to see me is my objective.

I'm not disrespectful to anybody that I'm cool with.

When away from home always be like the kind of man you would care to take into your own home.