My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.
My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.
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.
For whoever is lonely there is a tavern.
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.
Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll find a congregation in every tavern.
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.
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity.
Dreaming when Dawn's Left Hand was in the sky; I heard a Voice within the Tavern cry; Awake, my Little ones, and fill the Cup; Before Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry.'
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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.
Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
Love and Death once ceased their strife
At the Tavern of Man's Life.
There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
I intend to die in a tavern let the wine be placed near my dying mouth, so that when the choirs of angels come, they may say, 'God be merciful to this drinker'
Shakespeare was not meant for taverns, nor for tavern louts.
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