tavern quotes

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

- (George) Norman Douglas
  South Wind, ch.20.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as bya good tavern or inn.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
  Remark, 21 Mar. Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.2.