The tavern will compare favorably with the church.

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

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Samuel G Engel

In a tavern everybody puts on airs except the landlord.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He is the brewer's agent,…

— Thomas Adams

The study of tavern history often brings to light much evidence of sad domestic changes. Many a cherished and beautiful home, rich in annals…

— Alice Morse Earle

How lucky is the man who, like Mozart and others, goes to the tavern of an evening and writes some fresh music. For he…

— Johannes Brahms

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

— John Keats

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

— Archpoet

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

— Dana Perino

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, Reading the…

— John Clare

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

— John Keats

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

— Cormac McCarthy

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

— Norman Douglas

I want to remind you of one thing, which is, when I look around the world and look at the long-term economic fundamentals we…

— Henry Paulson

The queens in history compare favorably with the kings.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton