1.
A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
Ward McAllister
2.
Every house guest brings you happiness. Some when they arrive, and some when they are leaving
Confucius
3.
When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.
Max Beerbohm
4.
People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
Anton Chekhov
5.
Keeping one's guests supplied with liquor is the first law of hospitality.
Margaret Way
6.
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.
Alfred North Whitehead