"Hospitality: making your guests feel like they’re at home, even if you wish they were” is a jocular saying about hospitality that has been printed on many images. The saying was posted on Twitter on April 5, 2009 and is of unknown authorship.
Twitter
Marryam Chaudhry
@CoachMarryam
Hospitality: making your guests feel like they’re at home, even if you wish they were.
10:52 AM - 5 Apr 2009
Twitter
♥ ♥ Robert Dodson ♥ ♥
@MajorDodson
RT @Bonniestwit: Hospitality: making your guests feel like they’re at home, even if you wish they were.
3:52 PM - 19 Apr 2009
The Next Web
376 of the best one-liners on the internet
by ZEE — Oct 16, 2009 in SHAREABLES
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67. Hospitality: making your guests feel like they’re at home, even if you wish they were.
27 October 2010, St. Paul (MN) Pioneer Press:
“Hospitality: making your guests feel like they’re at home, even if you wish they were.
Google Books
The Joke’s on Me:
Improve Your Vocabulary and Elevate Your Linguistics Through Humor
By Jim Purdy
Bloomington, IN: iUniverse
2011
Pg. 252:
Hospitality: making your guests feel like they’re at home, even if you wish they were.
Google Books
5,000 Great One Liners
Compiled by Grant Tucker
London, UK: Biteback Publishing
2012
Pg. ?:
Hospitality: making your guests feel like they’re at home, even if you wish they were.
Twitter
Cynical Humor
@cynicalhumor
Hospitality: making your guests feel like they’re at home, even if you wish they were.
#company #visitors
6:46 PM - 20 Oct 2016
Twitter
One Liner Jokes
@one_jokes
Hospitality: making your guests feel like they’re at home, even if you wish they were.
1:01 PM - 18 Jan 2017
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.
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