But after all, what have we todo with taverns? Real…

How much more of the mosque, of prayer and fasting? Better go drunk and begging round the taverns. Khayyam, drink wine, for soon this…

— Omar Khayyam

To understand Hitler's power as a speaker, we must consider that he was not just the bellowing tavern demagogue we always picture, but in…

— Volker Ullrich

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

— Matt Groening

In the taverns all was amiable and easy, but the coffeehouses were cauldrons of edgy malcontents.

— Barbara Holland

It is the fine souls who serve us, and not what is called fine society. Fine society is only a self-protection against the vulgarities…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

At that comfortable tavern on Pontchartrain we had a bouillabaisse than which a better was never eaten at Marseilles; and not the least headache…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

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

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Some do not walk at all; others walk in the highways; a few walk across lots. Roads are made for horses and men of…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Samuel G Engel

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Graham Greene

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

— Randy Travis

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

— Rumi

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

— Cormac McCarthy

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

— Anonymous