A Quote by Damon Runyon

A free-loader is a confirmed guest. He is the man who is always willing to come to dinner.

Damon Runyon

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Damon Runyon
American - Journalist
October 4, 1880 - December 10, 1946

An Albanian’s house is the dwelling of God and the guest.’ Of God and the guest, you see. So before it is the house of its master, it is the house of one’s guest. The guest, in an Albanian’s life, represents the supreme ethical category, more important than blood relations. One may pardon the man who spills the blood of one’s father or of one’s son, but never the blood of a guest.

Ismail Kadare

In the Philippines, the host should always be willing to defer to the wishes of the guest.

Ferdinand Marcos

I'm a really good dinner party guest. I am always so appreciative, impressed that anyone has even managed to turn on the oven and cook for me.

Lucy Punch

In my case, I think my exile saved my life, for it inexorably confirmed something which Americans appear to have great difficulty accepting. Which is, simply, this: a man is not a man until he is able and willing to accept his own vision of the world, no matter how radically this vision departs from others.

James Baldwin

But also, the guest workers program, it's quite often misused, meaning people could come in as part of a guest workers program and after two weeks in the fields, they'd run off to do every other kind of job that isn't covered by a guest workers program.

Dana Rohrabacher

Cold soup is a very tricky thing and it is a rare hostess who can carry it off. More often than not the dinner guest is left with the impression that had he only come a little earlier he could have gotten it while it was still hot.

Fran Lebowitz

The price of liberty is, always has been, and always will be blood. The person who is not willing to die for his liberty has already lost it to the first scoundrel who is willing to risk dying to violate that person's liberty. Are you free?

Andrew W. Ford

When you are invited to a dinner, you are either a guest or you are part of a menu

Guy Verhofstadt

The truly free man is he who can decline a dinner invitation without giving an excuse.

Jules Renard

Humanism is the philosophy that you should be a good guest at the dinner table of life.

A.C. Grayling

If man walks in nature's midst, then he is nature's guest and must learn to behave as a well-brought-up guest.

Friedensreich Hundertwasser

The high spot of my day has always been getting home to have my dinner with my family. It still is: to have my dinner with Helen. It's a cocktail and dinner. I know I'm a tired old geezer, but there you are.

Terry Wogan

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.

Jules Renard

Rohan, one of us is an unmarried man with superior mathematical abilities and no prospects for the evening. The other is a confirmed lecher in an amorous mood, with a willing and nubile young wife waiting at home. Who do you think should do the damned account books?" And, with a nonchalant wave, St. Vincent had left the office.

Lisa Kleypas

I am neither a free-trade man, willing to collect all the money we have to raise by direct tax upon the people, nor am I willing to lay a tax simply for protection when the Government does not need the money.