I have now run up against an ugly snag, the Sunday Excise Law. It is altogether too strict, but I have no… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is the music which makes it what it is; it is the music which changes the place from the rear room… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
“Oh honey, someday a real man is going to make you see stars and you won't even be looking at the sky."… — Grace Willows Copy Share Image
If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with the average preacher. — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
At heart, I guess I'm a saloon singer because there's a greater intimacy between performer and audience in a nightclub. Then again,… — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
If I had to choose between putting a saloon or a liberal church on a corner, I'd choose the saloon every time.… — Jay Adams Copy Share Image
The man who votes for the saloon is pulling on the same rope with the devil, whether he knows it or not. — Billy Sunday Copy Share Image
There are a million boys growing up in the United States who have never seen a saloon, and who will never know… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
The true speech of man is idiomatic, if not of the earth and sky, then at least of the saloon and the… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
I got into a brawl one night in a saloon in Greenwich Village. Elia Kazan, a great director, saw me put out… — Burl Ives Copy Share Image
Think of drawing as a way of talking about the things that interest you. Think of those wonderful documents, drawings made on… — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes I need to reject the music proposed for my songs because the musicians misunderstand that the Fanny Crosby who once wrote… — Fanny Crosby Copy Share Image
Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Call listened with amusement--not that the incident hadn't been terrible. Being decapitated was a grisly fate, whether you were a Yankee or… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
When I'm writing in long hand, it just goes on and on and on. When I was in the saloon business, I… — Malachy McCourt Copy Share Image
The tide of visitors will float slowly about the bottom of the valley as harmless scum collecting in hotel and saloon eddies,… — John Muir Copy Share Image
I haunted streets, whorehouses, police stations, courtrooms, theater stages, jails, saloons, slums, madhouses, fires, murders, riots, banquet halls and bookshops. I ran… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
Everything I do on stage, I made up in saloons. I started doing it in front of people, and that became my… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
I wanted to get the guy who works next to me in the office something he really wants, but how do you… — Milton Berle Copy Share Image
Saloons provide moments of genuine ecstasy - but only if your soul is at peace and the rest of your life bears… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
What about the poor salesman who is calling into the office from the corner saloon instead of the home sickbed he claims… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow. It promises prosperity and sends adversity. It promises happiness and… — Billy Sunday Copy Share Image
