One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
Quotations by Sir Max Beerbohm

Other quotes and quotations :

• A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies. Fredrich
• The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes. Henry Ward Beecher
• Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind. John Tillotson
• Mankind is made great or little by its own will. Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
• Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser. Thomas Carlyle
• What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind. Friedrich Nietzsche
• It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind. Friedrich Schlegel
• Fish and guests smell at three days old. Danish Proverb
• Tact is the art of making guests feel at home when that’s really where you wish they were. George E. Bergman
• Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days. Benjamin Franklin