Taverns Quotes

In a tavern everybody puts on airs except the landlord.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our Revolution was born and raised in taverns.

— Barbara Holland

My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.

— Thomas Hood

And may we find when ended is the page, Death but a tavern on our pilgrimage.

— John Masefield

A dimly lit tavern, a willing young woman, are some of the reasons I cheat.

— Randy Travis

Shakespeare was not meant for taverns, nor for tavern louts.

— Samuel G Engel

When the hour is nigh me, Let me in a tavern die, With a tankard by me.

— Archpoet

There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.

— Cormac McCarthy

I was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the People's Charter…

— Henry Mayhew

Making it [St. Patrick's Day] a great day for the Irish, but just an ok day if you're looking for a quiet…

— Jon Stewart

Had Shakespeare listened to the news of Duncans death in a tavern or heard the knocking on his own bedroom door after…

— Graham Greene

I know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee. I can sing some…

— Al Jarreau

I’d heard he had started a fistfight in one of the seedier local taverns because someone had insisted on saying the word…

— Patrick Rothfuss

We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns…

— Anonymous

That's always the way with fanatics; they cross themselves at the tavern and throw stones at the temple.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

I am a drunkard from another kind of tavern. I dance to a silent tune. I am the symphony of stars.

— Rumi

I show up in my writing room at approximately 10 A.M. every morning without fail. Sometimes my muse sees fit to join…

— Tom Robbins

A Christian might drink only ginger ale at the tavern bar, but there he is already on the way to drinking beer…

— John R. Rice

The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the…

— Benjamin Franklin

The tavern will compare favorably with the church. The church is the place where prayers and sermons are delivered, but the tavernis…

— Henry David Thoreau

Who keeps the tavern and serves up the drinks? The peasant. Who squanders and drinks up money belonging to the peasant commune,…

— Anton Chekhov

Now musing o'er the changing scene Farmers behind the tavern screen Collect; with elbows idly press'd On hob, reclines the corner's guest,…

— John Clare

In the old days, people would gather around the fire, or they would gather at a tavern, and they'd tell a story.…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

This Bouillabaisse a noble dish is - A sort of soup or broth, or brew, Or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes,…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I…

— Quentin Crisp

Hitler appeared, a man with limited intellectual abilities and unfit for any useful work, bursting with envy and bitterness against all whom…

— Albert Einstein

With my union project in my hand, from town to town, from one end of France to the other, to talk to…

— Flora Tristan

…Forgive us, O Lord, we acknowledge ourselves as type of the common man, Of the men and women who shut the door…

— Anonymous

The Forgotten Man... works, he votes, generally he prays-but he always pays-yes, above all, he pays. He does not want an office;…

— William Graham Sumner

“Souls of poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern? Have…

— John Keats

A man who knows a thing, recognizes a given danger, and sees with his own eyes the possibility of a remedy, damned…

— George Lincoln Rockwell

Rush like a river from the highest mountain, drink from the fountain and stop your counting. What kind of wine does he…

— Trevor Hall

“The tavern will compare favorably with the church.”

— Henry David Thoreau

But after all, what have we todo with taverns? Real menacebelongs to the drawing-room.

— Edward Morgan Forste

A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity.

— Samuel Johnson

I was always frightened by taverns. They just seemed like very unpleasant places to go.

— Matt Groening

I waited tables at Govnr's Park Tavern in Denver.

— Dana Perino

But after all, what have we to do with taverns? Real menace belongs to the drawing-room.

— E. M. Forster

Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.

— Norman Douglas

This is April," he said, holding up the chicken. "She's the only friend I have left. I saved her from an evil…

— Kirsten Miller