Plays Host

Famous quotes containing the words plays and/or host:

    Better to be despised and have a servant, than to be self-important and lack food.
    Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 12:9.

    RSV translation reads, “Better is a man of humble standing who works for himself than one who plays the great man but lacks bread.”

    A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.
    Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65–8 B.C.)