"The host breaks bread and the guest says Grace. " ~~ Talmud, Berakot
"Let your home be a meet-place for the Sages! " ~~ Avot 1:4
"A woman recognizes the character of a guest sooner than her husband does." ~~ Talmud, Berakot 10
"Mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests." ~~ Max Beerbohm
"Welcome everyone—with joy." ~~ Sayings of the Fathers 1:15
"Do not offer your food to one who has no appetite for it!" ~~ Mivchar Hapeninim
"A woman watches a guest more grudgingly than a man. " ~~ Talmud, Bava Metzia
"The host enters the house first and the guest follows, but the guest is the first to leave." ~~ Derekh Eretz R.
"Visiting is like rain: prayed for when absent, but tiresome when overdone." ~~ Ibn Gabirol
"In the house of a wise man none is ever slow to perform the duties of hospitality." ~~ Philo
"Build your home in such a way that a stranger may feel happy in your midst! " ~~ Theodor Herzl
"If a guest enters your home, ask him no quesitons of the Torah unless you know that he can answer! " ~~ Sefer Chassidim