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There is an event once a year that I'm able to sing at, through 'Passions,' in Tennessee. That's always fun. We perform at the Wild Horse Saloon. -- Lindsay Hartley
Tolerance to my mind has been greatly overrated . . . . I take as much pleasure in detesting the good brothers and sisters of the [Anti-Saloon] League as they have in hating me. -- Westbrook Pegler
Salvador [Dali] was brought up in Spain, a country colored by the legends of Hannibal, El Greco, and Cervantes. I was brought up in Ohio, a region steeped in the tradition of Coxey's Army, the Anti-Saloon League, and William Howard Taft. -- James Thurber
And now, in honour of the 150th anniversary of Beethoven's death, I would like to play 'Clear the Saloon', er, 'Clair de Lune', by Debussy. I don't play Beethoven so well, but I play Debussy very badly, and Beethoven would have liked that. -- Victor Borge
There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects. -- Billy Sunday
The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow. -- Billy Sunday
If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon. -- W. C. Fields
I tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon. -- Billy Sunday
I come from a long line of saloon keepers and proselytizers, and I draw from both sides. -- Jon Huntsman, Jr.
I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear. -- Billy Sunday
I never considered acting while growing up. I just knew I didn't want to go into the saloon business: I wanted to get away from Kenosha. And once I left, never, ever did it cross my mind to go back. I went to college and thought I'd study law. -- Don Ameche
My father ran a saloon in Kenosha, Wis., which is just about as rough a living as I can think of. It was brutal; it scared the hell out of me. I was so petrified all the while I was a child, I didn't know what I was doing half the time. -- Don Ameche
I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines. -- Jimmy Breslin
Declining to go to church with my parents in the morning, I would ostentatiously set out for the Monist Society in the afternoon, down an obscure street which it seemed a little improper to be walking on, as everything was closed for Sunday, upstairs through a sort of side entrance over a saloon. -- Susan Glaspell
I mean, in my - and I'm not trying to do spilled milk, but in those days it was a little - I think it was much tougher, because you got an image, and you were in a saloon. And it was tough to come out of a saloon and to get in films, and to maintain an image, you know. -- Don Rickles
If I had my life to live over again, I'd live over a saloon. -- W. C. Fields
My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon. -- Thomas Hood
I want a woman who can go to the saloon with me, not hypocritical, fame seeking -- Denrele Edun
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
The man who votes for the saloon is pulling on the same rope with the devil, whether he knows it or not. -- Billy Sunday
The true speech of man is idiomatic, if not of the earth and sky, then at least of the saloon and the bleachers. -- Walter Lippmann
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What about the poor salesman who is calling into the office from the corner saloon instead of the home sickbed he claims he is in? -- Malcolm Forbes
I wanted to get the guy who works next to me in the office something he really wants, but how do you wrap up a saloon? -- Milton Berle
A horrid alcoholic explosion scatters all my good intentions like bits of limbs and clothes over the doorsteps and into the saloon bars of the tawdriest pubs. -- Dylan Thomas
A horrid alcoholic explosion scatters all my good intentions like bits of limbs and clothes over the doorsteps and into the saloon bars of the tawdriest pubs -- Dylan Thomas
I ask especially that no state shall, by law or otherwise, authorize the return of the saloon, either in its old form or in some modern guise. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her. -- Mark Twain
Every settlement with two shacks and a saloon gave itself a name: Helltown, Fair Play, Grizzly Flats, Piety Hill, Whiskey Flat, You Bet, Nary Red, Lousy Ravine, Petticoat Slide. -- Donald Dale Jackson
The tide of visitors will float slowly about the bottom of the valley as harmless scum collecting in hotel and saloon eddies, leaving the rocks and falls eloquent as ever. -- John Muir
The semi-colon is a burp, a hiccup. It's a drunk staggering out of the saloon at 2 a.m., grabbing your lapels on the way and asking you to listen to one more story. -- James Scott Bell
The hot hall full of painted girls and American soldiers is a saloon in some Western film. This noise drenches us, wakens us to do something else. It shows us a lost path. -- Jean Cocteau
The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow. It promises prosperity and sends adversity. It promises happiness and sends misery.... It is God's worst enemy and the devil's best friend. -- Billy Sunday
You sit back in the darkness, nursing your beer, breathing in that ineffable aroma of the old-time saloon: dark wood, spilled beer, good cigars, and ancient whiskey - the sacred incense of the drinking man. -- Bruce Aidells
The average player would rather play than watch. Those who don't play can't possibly appreciate the subtleties of the game. Trying to get their attention with golf is like selling Shakespeare in the neighbourhood saloon. -- Bob Toski

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