There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
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They threw me out the Ramada Inn, I said: 'It wasn't me, I got a twin! Oh my god it's you, not again!'
eminemWhoe'er has traveled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome, at an Inn.
william shenstoneIf my best wines mislike thy taste,And my best service win thy frown,Then tarry not, I bid thee haste;There's many another Inn in town.
thomas bailey aldrichFor the world, I count it not an Inn, but a Hospital, and a place, not to live, but to die in.
Although the major gambling casinos do not maintain statistical records on the results of games of Craps, one event has been recorded-that wherein a young man achieved 28 consecutive "passes" at the Desert Inn Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada (June 10, 1950). Odds against such an event are 400 million to 1.
richard arnold epsteinThe world's an Inn; and I her guest.
Francis QuarlesI returned to the Holiday Inn — where they have a swimming pool and air-conditioned rooms — to consider the paradox of a nation that has given so much to those who preach the glories of rugged individualism from the security of countless corporate sinecures, and so little to that diminishing band of yesterday's refugees who still practice it, day by day, in a tough, rootless and sometimes witless style that most of us have long since been weaned away from.
hunter s. thompson"They should call it the Low Quality Inn."
rachel trachtenburgWhere'er his fancy bids him roam, In ev'ry Inn he finds a home * * * * * Will not an Inn his cares beguile, Where on each face he sees a smile?
What care if the day Be turned to gray, What care if the night come soon! We may choose the pace Who bow for grace, At the Inn of the Silver Moon.
Inn of a traveller on his way to Jerusalem.
If my best wines mislike thy taste, And my best service win thy frown, Then tarry not, I bid thee haste; There's many another Inn in town.
thomas bailey aldrichSince every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to th'appointed place we tend; The world's an Inn, and death the journey's end.
john drydenFor the next Inn he spurs amain,In haste alights, and skuds away,But time and tide for no man stay.
william somervileWe are pilgrims, not settlers; this earth is our Inn, not our home.
john heyl vincentI have no objection to any person’s religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other person, because that other person don’t believe it also. But when a man’s religion becomes really frantic; when it is a positive torment to him; and, in fine, makes this earth of ours an uncomfortable Inn to lodge in; then I think it high time to take that individual aside and argue the point with him.
Herman MelvilleThere is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or Inn.
We are pilgrims, not settlers; this earth is our Inn, not our home.
I think of life as an Inn where I have to stay until the abyss coach arrives. I don't know where it will take me, for I know nothing.
For the next Inn he spurs amain, In haste alights, and skuds away, But time and tide for no man stay.
william somervileSince every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims, to th' appointed place we tend; The world's an Inn, and death the journey's end.
john drydenNor is this lower world but a huge Inn, And men the rambling passengers.
james howellShall I not take mine ease in mine Inn, but I shall have my pocket picked?
Now spurs the lated traveller apace To gain the timely Inn; and near approaches The subject of our watch.