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The tavern will compare favorably with the church. -- Henry David Thoreau
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle. -- Jonathan Swift
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 am a drunkard from another kind of tavern. I dance to a silent tune. I am the symphony of stars. -- Rumi
If home is to have a greater lure than a tavern the wife must be at least as cheerful as the waitress. -- Phyllis Schlafly
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern. -- Samuel Johnson
... it is rarely [Americans] dine in society, except in taverns and boarding-houses. Then they eat with the greatest possible rapidity, and in total silence ... -- Frances Trollope
How lucky is the man who, like Mozart and others, goes to the tavern of an evening and writes some fresh music. For he lives while he is creating. -- Johannes Brahms
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 of the street and the tavern. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 few minutes anyway, free and happy. -- Mikhail Bakunin
And this I know; whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite, One flash of it within the Tavern caught Better than in the temple lost outright. -- Omar Khayyam
Souls of poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern? Have ye tippled drink more fine Than mine host's Canary wine? -- John Keats
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 the street, into the halls of a housing project. -- Gwendolyn Brooks
The tavern will compare favorably with the church. The church is the place where prayers and sermons are delivered, but the tavernis where they are to take effect, and if the former are good, the latter cannot be bad. -- Henry David Thoreau
He who has not been at a tavern knows not what a paradise it is. O holy tavern! O miraculous tavern!--holy, because no carking cares are there, nor weariness, nor pain; and miraculous, because of the spits, which themselves turn round and round! -- Pietro Aretino
Intemperance is a dangerous companion. It throws many people off their guard, betrays them to a great many indecencies, to ruinous passions, to disadvantages in fortune; makes them discover secrets, drive foolish bargains, engage in play, and often to stagger from the tavern to the stews. -- Jeremy Collier
Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern, and tell stories. One person would chime in, then another, maybe someone would repeat a story they heard already but with a different spin. It's a collective process. -- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
A Christian might drink only ginger ale at the tavern bar, but there he is already on the way to drinking beer and whiskey. The girl who attends a ball but never dances a step, will soon surrender her body to the lustful embrace of every casual male acquaintance as other dancers do. -- John R. Rice
I think that I love society as much as most, and am ready enough to fasten myself like a bloodsucker for the time to any full-blooded man that comes in my way. I am naturally no hermit, but might possibly sit out the sturdiest frequenter of the bar-room, if my business called me thither. -- Henry David Thoreau
I show up in my writing room at approximately 10 A.M. every morning without fail. Sometimes my muse sees fit to join me there and sometimes she doesn't, but she always knows where I'll be. She doesn't need to go hunting in the taverns or on the beach or drag the boulevard looking for me. -- Tom Robbins
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 news to mark again The bankrupt lists or price of grain. Puffing the while his red-tipt pipe He dreams o'er troubles nearly ripe, Yet, winter's leisure to regale, Hopes better times, and sips his ale. -- John Clare
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. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation, I put my name forward and ran for office. -- John Boehner
Our Revolution was born and raised in taverns. -- Barbara Holland
I was always frightened by taverns. They just seemed like very unpleasant places to go. -- Matt Groening
But after all, what have we to do with taverns? Real menace belongs to the drawing-room. -- E. M. Forster
In the taverns all was amiable and easy, but the coffeehouses were cauldrons of edgy malcontents. -- Barbara Holland
Mama and Papa are more to blame (for delinquency) than the kids; parents should stay home and raise their children and spend less time in taverns. -- Harry S. Truman
We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit -- George Bernard Shaw
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'Tis a good rule in every journey to provide some piece of liberal study to rescue the hours which bad weather, bad company, and taverns steal from the best economist. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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