Welcome

A welcome is a greeting given upon someone's arrival.

Quotes

• 'Tis sweet to hear the watch-dog's honest bark
  Bay deep-mouth'd welcome as we draw near home;
  'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark
  Our coming, and look brighter when we come.
  • Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto I, Stanza 123.

• He enter'd in his house—his home no more,
  For without hearts there is no home;—and felt
  The solitude of passing his own door
  Without a welcome.
  • Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto III, Stanza 52.

• “The better of the two is one who is the first to give a greeting” (6210).
  • Sahih Muslim. Quoted from Ram Swarup, Understanding Islam through Hadis, 1983. [1]

• Bid that welcome
  Which comes to punish us, and we punish it
  Seeming to bear it lightly.
  • William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (1600s), Act IV, scene 14, line 136.

• I hold your dainties cheap, sir, and your welcome dear.
  • William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, Act III, scene 1, line 21.

• A table full of welcome makes scarce one dainty dish.
  • William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, Act III, scene 1, line 23.

• Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.
  • William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, Act III, scene 1, line 26.

• Sir, you are very welcome to our house:
  It must appear in other ways than words,
  Therefore I scant this breathing courtesy.
  • William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (late 1590s), Act V, scene 1, line 139.

• Trust me, sweet,
  Out of this silence yet I pick'd a welcome.
  • William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream (c. 1595-96), Act V, scene 1, line 99.

• Welcome ever smiles,
  And farewell goes out sighing.
  • William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida (c. 1602), Act III, scene 3, line 168.

• His worth is warrant for his welcome.
  • William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1590s), Act II, scene 4, line 102.

• I reckon this always, that a man is never undone till he be hanged, nor never welcome to a place till some certain shot be paid and the hostess say "Welcome!"
  • William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1590s), Act II, scene 5, line 3.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 867-68.

• Come in the evening, or come in the morning,
  Come when you're looked for, or come without warning,
  Kisses and welcome you'll find here before you,
  And the oftener you come here the more I'll adore you.
  • Thomas O. Davis, The Welcome.

• Welcome, my old friend,
  Welcome to a foreign fireside.
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, To an Old Danish Song-Book.

• Shall I meet other wayfarers at night?
  Those who have gone before.
  Then must I knock, or call when just in sight?
  They will not keep you standing at that door.
  • Christina G. Rossetti, Up Hill.

• Welcome as the flowers in May.
  • Walter Scott, Rob Roy, Chapter VIII. James Howell, Proverbs. Charles Macklin, Love à la Mode, Act I, scene 2.

• Don't we all need someone to greet us
  to make us feel we're here?
  • Naomi Shihab Nye Everything Comes Next: Collected and New Poems (2020)