Welcome as the flowers in May.

You are as welcome as the flowers in May.

— Charles Macklin

A table-full of welcome!

— William Shakespeare

There is an emanation from the heart in genuine hospitality which cannot be described, but is immediately felt and puts the stranger at once…

— Washington Irving

Blest that abode, where want and pain repair, And every stranger finds a ready chair.

— Oliver Goldsmith

The atmosphere breathes rest and comfort, and the many chambers seem full of welcomes.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

For 't is always fair weather When good fellows get together With a stein on the table and a good song ringing clear.

— Richard Hovey

When friends are at your hearthside met, Sweet courtesy has done its most If you have made each guest forget That he himself is…

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed.

— Hugh Miller

For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.

— Alexander Pope

No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a…

— Plautus

President Obama has made it his mission that we welcome our troops home with care and concern and the respect they deserve. That is…

— John F. Kerry

“The arbutus is now open everywhere in the woods and groves. How pleasant it is to meet the same flowers year after year! If…

— Susan Fenimore Cooper

Flowers are beautiful(but not as beautiful as you are).

— Anonymous

Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths.

— Benjamin Franklin

My days – the blossom of my youth and the flower of my manhood – have been darkened by the dreariness of servitude. In…

— Daniel O'Connell