"Receive a guest with the same attitude you have when alone. When alone, maintain the same attitude you have in receiving guests."

-- Soyen Shaku

#Attitude Quotes #Receiving Quotes #Guests Quotes

“Lesson #456 of high school life: Never, EVER trust an alarm clock.”
“'One Hundred Years of Solitude' convinced me to drop out of Harvard graduate school. The novel reminded me of everything my Ph.D. program was trying to make me forget. Thank you, Gabriel Garcia Marquez.”
“We learned not to waste ammo even on warriors except in self-protection”
“There is no set numerical value you can put on a pitcher. Theyre all different.”
“Having members of the Bush administration actually sit down and discuss counter terrorism with the very countries that support terrorists is absurd.”
“I just wish, when neither of us has written to my husband's mother, I didn't feel so much worse about it than he does.”
“Iran can and should be a responsible state, not the leading state sponsor of terror.”
“A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.”

Source : Alan Ayckbourn (1988). “The Norman Conquests: A Trilogy of Plays”, p.215, Grove Press

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