A common table for guests. [ French ]

Fish and guests smell at three days old. [ Proverb ]

Unbidden guests know not where to sit down. [ Proverb ]

He has nothing to eat, and yet invites guests. [ Proverb ]

Guests that come by daylight are best received. [ Proverb ]

Twas a public feast and public day -
Quite full, right dull, guests hot, and dishes cold,
Great plenty, much formality, small cheer.
And everybody out of their own sphere. [ Byron ]

He who would have fine guests, let him have a fine wife. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Receive your thoughts as guests, and treat your desires as children. [ Chinese Proverb ]

Be work by day, guests at eve, weeks of toil, festive days of joy, the magic spell for thy future. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

A true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what the guests fling away, and consequently is apt to snarl most when there are the fewest bones. [ Swift ]