Tavern Quotes

44 quotes by 40 authors

People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a… — Mikhail Bakunin
I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts.… — John Boehner
What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into… — Gwendolyn Brooks
Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends. — Norman Douglas
At that comfortable tavern on Pontchartrain we had a bouillabaisse than which a better was never eaten at Marseilles; and not the least headache in… — William Makepeace Thackeray
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, the… — Thomas Adams
Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told… — Quentin Crisp
A man who knows a thing, recognizes a given danger, and sees with his own eyes the possibility of a remedy, damned well has the… — George Lincoln Rockwell
The Finns also have a bent for drink, even though there is no wine here whatsoever, except for illicit tavern keeping, which is harshly suppressed.… — Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
I am a drunkard from another kind of tavern. I dance to a silent tune. I am the symphony of stars. — Rumi
I was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the People's Charter were in the… — Henry Mayhew
The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or at… — Benjamin Franklin
This Bouillabaisse a noble dish is - A sort of soup or broth, or brew, Or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes, That Greenwich never… — William Makepeace Thackeray
Information and images bump against each other every day in massive quantities, and the resonance of this interfacing is like the babble of a village… — Marshall McLuhan
Some do not walk at all; others walk in the highways; a few walk across lots. Roads are made for horses and men of business.… — Henry David Thoreau
My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon. — Thomas Hood
In a tavern everybody puts on airs except the landlord. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am very sorry to know and hear how unreverently that most precious jewel, the Word of God, is disputed, rhymed, sung and jangled in… — King Edward VIII
A dimly lit tavern, a willing young woman, are some of the reasons I cheat. — Randy Travis
I waited tables at Govnr's Park Tavern in Denver. — Dana Perino

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