Visits Proverbs

Sayings about Visitors & Visiting

The devil visits the rich too — but he visits the poor twice. ~ Swedish Proverb

He who would visit a vice, never has far to travel. ~ Arabian Proverb

God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home. ~ French Proverb

Misfortune does not visit the weak-hearted. ~ Russian Proverb

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 Proverb

We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. ~ Australian Proverb

God bless him who pays visits -- short visits. ~ Saudi Arabian Proverb

Luck sometimes visits a fool, but never sits down with him. ~ German Proverb

Diseases are the visits of God. ~ Italian Proverb

Visits always give pleasure -- if not the arrival, the departure. ~ Portuguese Proverb

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 Proverb

An infertile woman gets a lot of visitors. ~ Ugandan Proverb

A visitor comes with ten blessings, eats one, and leaves nine. ~ Iranian Proverb

If two doctors visit a sick man, the sexton rings the bells. ~ Spanish Proverb

No one can be caught in places he does not visit. ~ Danish Proverb

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