John Ball Quotes

Eight and twenty canoes, full of men, women and children seemingly very glad of our coming …. The people of the country came aboard of us and making show of love, and gave us tobacco and Indian wheat, and departed for that night; but we durst not trust them.

Carrier of news and knowledge. Instrument of trade and industry. Promoter of mutual acquaintance. Of peace and goodwill among men and nations.

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

There is nothing wrong with not wanting to be a hospitable person and have groups of people in your home touching your personables.

I admire vegetarians who refuse to eat nothing but vegetables in their homes, but I also admire those who put aside those principles or those preferences when they travel. Just to be a good guest.

Flattery is a challenge. The proper turning away from it, undercutting, diminishing it without offense or vehemence, is a social grace sweeter even than the swift determination to keep ahead in the race of hospitality.

I always feel that I have two duties to perform with a parting guest: one, to see that he doesn't forget anything that is his; the other, to see that he doesn't take anything that is mine.

How sweet and gracious, even in common speech, Is that fine sense which men call Courtesy! Wholesome as air and genial as the light, Welcome in every clime as breath of flowers, It transmutes aliens into trusting friends, And gives its owner passport round the globe.

Comfort comes into your house first as guest, then as a host, then finally as the master.

Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.

You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that you think she's pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment.

To invite people to dine with us is to make ourselves responsible for their well-being for as long as they are under our roofs.

My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.

If it were not for guests all houses would be graves.

Flattery is useful when dealing with youngsters.

Foolishness is indeed painful, and verily so is youth, but more painful by far than either is being obliged in another person's house.

I come from a Greek household. My mother wouldn't let the FedEx man come in without eating.

It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go.

To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself.

It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave.

Unoka went into an inner room and soon returned with a small wooden disc containing a kola nut, some alligator pepper and a lump of white chalk. "I have kola," he announced when he sat down, and passed the disc over to his guest. "Thank you. He who brings kola brings life. But I think you ought to break it," replied Okoye passing back the disc. "No, it is for you, I think," and they argued like this for a few moments before Unoka accepted the honor of breaking the kola. Okoye, meanwhile, took the lump of chalk, drew some lines on the floor, and then painted his big toe.

Turning your nose up at a genuine and sincere gesture of hospitality is no way to travel or to make friends around the world.

A guest is really good or bad because of the host or hostess who makes being a guest an easy or a difficult task.

It is nasty when you're playing in someone else's house to point out that they don't have enough balls.

When you think about President Obama, he gives the president of China a five-star dinner at the White House. When somebody rips me off I don't give them five star dinners.