Bumps Quote by Marshall McLuhan

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

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

— Cormac McCarthy

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

— Rumi

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

— Randy Travis

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

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

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

— Samuel G Engel

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

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

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

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

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

— Barbara Holland