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  • Rude poets of the tavern hearth, squandering your unquoted mirth, which keeps the ground, and never soars, while jake retorts, and reuben roars; tough and screaming, as birch-bark, goes like bullet to its mark; while the solid curse and jeer never balk the waiting ear.

    Rude   Waiting   Jake  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1847). “Poems”, p.103
  • 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?

    Wine   Mermaid   Soul  
    'Lines on the Mermaid Tavern' (1820)
  • 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.

    Fire   People   Different  
    Interview with Radheyan Simonpillai, www.askmen.com. September 30, 2011.
  • They sell courage of a sort in the taverns. And another sort, though not for sale, a man can find in the confessional. Try the alehouses and the churches, Hugh. In either a man can be quiet and think.

    Ellis Peters (2014). “The Heretic's Apprentice”, p.129, Head of Zeus
  • 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. But, all the way to St. Petersburg, the Finn will drink himself into forgetfulness, lose his money, horse, bridle, and return home poorer than a church rat.

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

    Stars   Symphony   Tunes  
  • Making it [St. Patrick's Day] a great day for the Irish, but just an ok day if you're looking for a quiet tavern to talk, read or have a white wine spritzer.

    Wine   White   Great Day  
  • And may we find when ended is the page, Death but a tavern on our pilgrimage.

    Taverns   May   Pages  
    John Masefield (1922). “The Poems and Plays of John Masefield: Poems”
  • A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.

  • To understand Hitler's power as a speaker, we must consider that he was not just the bellowing tavern demagogue we always picture, but in fact constructed his speeches very deliberately.

    Taverns   Speech   Facts  
  • When the hour is nigh me, Let me in a tavern die, With a tankard by me.

  • This is April," he said, holding up the chicken. "She's the only friend I have left. I saved her from an evil chef at Tavern on the Green, and we've pledged eternal friendship.

    Evil   Taverns   Green  
    Kirsten Miller (2011). “Kiki Strike: The Empress's Tomb”, p.116, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • 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 habit of assembling

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

    Joy   Taverns  
    Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.43, Pan Macmillan
  • If home is to have a greater lure than a tavern the wife must be at least as cheerful as the waitress.

    Home   Wife   Cheerful  
  • No good sentences ever include the word ‘should.’ I should have paid the tavern bill; now they’re coming to break my legs. I should never have run off with my best friend’s wife; now she devils me constantly. I should—

    Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Prince”, p.222, Simon and Schuster
  • But after all, what have we to do with taverns? Real menace belongs to the drawing-room.

    Real   Class   Drawing  
    E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.57, Courier Corporation
  • There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

    Happiness   Beer   Men  
    In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 2, p. 452 (21 March 1776)
  • The study of tavern history often brings to light much evidence of sad domestic changes. Many a cherished and beautiful home, rich in annals of family prosperity and private hospitality, ended its days as a tavern.

    Beautiful   Home   Light  
    Alice Morse Earle (2016). “Stage-coach and Tavern Days”, p.40, Library of Alexandria
  • 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.

    Children   Self   People  
  • 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.

    Children   Home   Kids  
    Harry S. Truman, Ralph Keyes (1995). “Wit and wisdom of Harry Truman”, Harpercollins
  • The tavern will compare favorably with the church.

    Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.243, Simon and Schuster
  • 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.

    Wrath   Light   Taverns  
    Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.201, University of Virginia Press
  • I’d heard he had started a fistfight in one of the seedier local taverns because someone had insisted on saying the word “utilize” instead of “use.

    Taverns   Use   Heard  
    Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.34, Penguin
  • And therefore education at the University mostly worked by the age-old method of putting a lot of young people in the vicinity of a lot of books and hoping that something would pass from one to the other, while the actual young people put themselves in the vicinity of inns and taverns for exactly the same reason.

    Book   People   Age  
    "Interesting Times". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1994.
  • 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.

    Dream   Reading   Winter  
  • 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!

    Pain   Taverns   Care  
    Quoted by Longfellow in Hyperion, Book III, Chapter II. "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", p. 394-395, 1922.
  • 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.

    Men   Thinking   Solitude  
    Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.218
  • 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.

    Self   Soul   Society  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.413
  • In a tavern everybody puts on airs except the landlord.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1963). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.146, Harvard University Press
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