Earth receive an honoured guest; WilliamYeats is laid to rest: Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry.

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)
  'In Memory of  W.B.Yeats', pt.3.

Even so we in like manner, as soon as we were born, began to draw to our end, and had no sign of virtue to shew; but were consumed in our own wickedness. For the hope of the ungodly is like dust that is blown away with the wind; like a thin froth that is driven away with the storm; like as the smoke which is dispersed here and there with a tempest, and passeth away as the remembrance of a guest that tarrieth but a day.

-Bible (Apocrypha)
Wisdom of Solomon 5:13^14.

I think the dying prayat the last not please but thank you as a guest thanks his host at the door.

-Dillard, Annie
  Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, ch.15.

I Tiresias, old man with wrinkled dugs Perceived the scene, and foretold the restö I too awaited the expected guest. He, the young man carbuncular, arrives, A small house agent's clerk, with one bold stare, One of the low on whom assurance sits As a silk hat on a Bradford millionaire.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  The Waste Land, pt.3,'The Fire Sermon'.

A guest of one's time and not a member of the household.

-Kennan, George Frost
Of the feeling of being viewed as a pragmatist. Quoted in Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas The Wise Men (1986).

Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.

-Pope, Alexander
  Odyssey, bk.15, l.83.