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He'd sometimes thought that the War College was really a thinly disguised royal subsidy to the local tavern industry. — Django Wexler

Well, I've always wanted to call my son Barr."
"Like a tavern? Like a soap?"
"My father's name is Barr."
"Oh. And I love it! — Brian K. Vaughan

You can take the barbarian out of the tavern, but he can take the blood out of your body. — Greg X. Graves

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

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. - SAMUEL JOHNSON — Kingsley Amis

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

I knew that he would go out to the tavern, returning with eyes like glittering spoons. — Tracy Chevalier

What, man, do you mistake the hollow sky For a thronged tavern ... ? — John Keats

My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon. — Thomas Hood

Flirting with random women in a tavern? That sounds like Helios. Well, it sounds like most of the gods, actually. — Rick Riordan

His tavern sign bore witness to his feats of arms. He had painted it himself, being a Jack-of-all-trades who did everything badly. — Victor Hugo

pretty girl the German had danced with in a Cretan tavern during the Occupation was actually Xan in disguise. — Christopher McDougall

Of course, the three men in the tavern who'd decided to attack Iseult had never made it back home at all. At least not with intact femurs. — Susan Dennard

When the hour is nigh me,
Let me in a tavern die,
With a tankard by me. — Archpoet

A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle. — Jonathan Swift

Life is every bit as devious as Death. It too can wear a hooded coat. It too can slip into town, lurk in an alley, or wait in the back of a tavern. — Amor Towles

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. — Edward Moore

Double Sword Tavern." Tristan said, reading out loud. "Sounds charming and inviting. — B.C. Morin

A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity. — Samuel Johnson

I don't love her anymore
So
Why should I walk
Nights
By the tavern
Where I drank
Every night
Thinking of her? — Orhan Veli Kanik

I know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee. I can sing some polkas. And proud of that. — Al Jarreau

I have wrote my name in hell, Brian McFee had said as he was dying on the sawdust of the floor in the Bent Ridge Tavern. — James Purdy

and only waking from this nightmare at rare intervals in the tavern; — Anton Chekhov

You've destroyed our tavern!" she yelled. "You'll pay for this!" "Bill us," Conner said, — Chris Colfer

One smile on the battlefield is worth more than a dozen in the tavern
Talon Of Tallasian
Zachania — Joseph Henry Gaines

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

For whoever is lonely there is a tavern. — Georg Trakl

The tavern will compare favorably with the church. — Henry David Thoreau

And may we find when ended is the page, Death but a tavern on our pilgrimage. — John Masefield

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

In a tavern everybody puts on airs except the landlord. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

With "poets dead and gone" as Keats says in "Mermaid Tavern" they are alive and talking to us and us to them. — Gregory Orr

Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends. — Norman Douglas

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

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 were always the stories, of course, the war legends, but who - other than himself, in Jhesh's tavern, increasingly wearily - still told those? — Richard K. Morgan

The pulse of New York City can be found on the bent elbows of the patrons in Pete's Tavern. — Mickey Wyte

To the bunch at Ryan's Tavern who still quite justifiably blame the boss rather than themselves. — Richard Fitzgerald