Sayings about Visitors & Visiting
He who would visit a vice, never has far to travel. ~ Arabian Proverb
The devil visits the rich too — but he visits the poor twice. ~ Swedish Proverbs
God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home. ~ French Proverb
Misfortune does not visit the weak-hearted. ~ Russian Proverbs
Visit rarely, and you will be more loved. ~ Arabian Proverb
Don’t expect to be offered a chair when you visit a place where the chief himself sits on the floor. ~ Ghanaian Proverb
Misfortune does not restrict his visits to one day. ~ Ghanaian Proverb
If your neighbor visits Mecca once, watch out for him. If he makes a second visit, you had better avoid him. After the third visit you had better move to another street. ~ Arabian Proverb
Only the foolish visit the land of the cannibals. ~ New Zealander Proverbs
We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. ~ Australian Proverbs
God bless him who pays visits — short visits. ~ Saudi Arabian Proverb
Luck sometimes visits a fool, but never sits down with him. ~ German Proverbs
Diseases are the visits of God. ~ Italian Proverbs
Visits always give pleasure — if not the arrival, the departure. ~ Portuguese Proverbs
It is easier to visit your friends than to live with them. ~ Chinese Proverb
Don’t expect to be offered a chair when you visit a place where the chief himself sits on the floor. ~ Ghanaian Proverb
A visit is like rainwater; you pray for it when it stays away and its a problem when it rains too much. ~ Hebrew Proverb
Let us hurry and finish up the food; when visitors arrive, the meal will be over. ~ New Zealander Proverbs
An infertile woman gets a lot of visitors. ~ Ugandan Proverb
A visitor comes with ten blessings, eats one, and leaves nine. ~ Iranian Proverbs
If two doctors visit a sick man, the sexton rings the bells. ~ Spanish Proverbs
No one can be caught in places he does not visit. ~ Danish Proverbs
Visit infrequently, and you will get closer. ~ Arabian Proverb
When the bee comes to your house, let her have beer; you may want to visit the bee’s house some day. ~ Congolese Proverb
Better visit hell in your lifetime than after you’re dead. ~ Spanish Proverb
Don’t visit auctions if you have no money. ~ Hebrew Proverb
Quotations about Visitors & Visiting
The shorter the visit, the quicker you’ll be invited back. ~ C.J. Langenhoven
Visits are unsatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not visit, would do nothing. ~ William Cowper
Santa Claus has the right idea – visit people only once a year. ~ Victor Borge
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window. ~ Charles de Montesquieu
Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death. ~ Desmond Morris
One day, people will be able to buy tickets to visit space. ~Leroy Chiao
Sundays tend to be a day where just I do nothing but visit people. It’s kind of like trick-or-treating. ~ Chuck Palahniuk
If you don’t visit the bad neighborhoods, the bad neighborhoods are going to visit you. ~ Thomas Friedman
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. ~ Katharine Hepburn
I don’t belong on this earth. I always feel out of place – like a visitor. ~ Hattie McDaniel
Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends. ~ H. L. Mencken
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but not in visiting them too often. ~ AuthUnknown
If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans. ~ Stephen Hawking
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say “I WANT TO SEE THE MANAGER.”~ William S. Burroughs
Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes. ~ J. B. Priestley
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. ~ George Eliot
Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void. ~ Robert Smithson
A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Visits are for the most part neither more nor less than inventions for discharging upon our neighbors somewhat of our own unendurable weight. ~ Claude Nicole
A good place to visit, but a poor place to stay. ~ Josh Billings
Visitors are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not visit, would do nothing. ~ William Cowper
My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly. ~ Corra May Harris
Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never. ~ Anna Jameson
Superior people never make long visits. ~ Marianne Moore
Every European visitor to the United States is struck by the comparative rarity of what he would call a face, by the frequency of men and women who look like elderly babies. ~ W. H. Auden
Fish and visitors smell in three days. ~ Benjamin Franklin
Don’t hurry, don’t worry. You’re only here for a short visit. So be sure to stop and smell the flowers. ~ Walter Hagen
When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people’s time, not one’s own. ~ Oscar Wilde
The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi. ~ Fred A. Allen
The most important thing is to live an interesting life. Keep your eyes, ears and heart open. Talk to people and visit interesting places, and don’t forget to ask questions. To be a writer you need to drink in the world around you so it’s always there in your head. ~ Michael Morpurgo
Each of us has an inner room where we can visit to be cleansed of fear-based thoughts and feelings. This room, the holy of holies, is a sanctuary of light. ~ Marianne Williamson
