Inn Quotes
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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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More Inn Quotes
Whoe'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 shenstone— Written at an Inn at Henley (1758), st. 6. Compare: " From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,— Path, motive, guide, original, and end", Samuel Johnson, Motto to the Rambler, No. 7.
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 aldrich— Quits; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 379.
For the world, I count it not an Inn, but a Hospital, and a place, not to live, but to die in.
— Section 11. (Part II)
"They should call it the Low Quality Inn."
rachel trachtenburg— On the lack of quality of the Quality Inn, in which she stayed in with her parents while on tour (Reprint of The Times
And I started to think about this story that was taking over my car at that moment. "Jamaica Inn" walked into my Saab and she said, "You might not like my story because i'm not gonna tell you how it ends yet, and you need to travel it with me.
tori amos— The Beekeeper DVD
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!'
eminem— "As The World Turns" (Track 17).
I may not be the expert as some people on foreign policy, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
mike huckabee— Stanage, Niall (18 December 2007), "Huckabee Says What His Opponents Won’t", New York Observer, retrieved on 2007-12-15
He had scarcely gone a short league, when Fortune, that was conducting his affairs from good to better, discovered to him the road, where he also espied an Inn. Sancho positively maintained it was an Inn, and his master that it was a castle; and the dispute lasted so long that they arrived there before it was determined.
Miguel de Cervantes— Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605-15), Part I, Chapter XV.
Alone the varying road of life, In calm content, in toil or strife, At morn or noon, by night or day, As time conducts him on his way, How oft doth man, by care oppressed, Find in an Inn a place of rest.
— William Combe, Dr. Syntax in Search of the Picturesque, Canto IX, line 1.
Where'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?
— William Combe, Dr. Syntax in Search of the Picturesque, Canto IX, line 13.
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.
— Herman Knickerbocker Vielé, The Good Inn.
Since 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 dryden— 1700 Palamon and Arcite, bk.3, l.883-8.
If a man knows he will sooner or later be robbed upon a journey, he will have a bottle of the best in every Inn, and look upon all his extravagances as so much gained upon the thieves.
Robert Louis Stevenson— 1878 An InlandVoyage,'The Oise in Flood'.
Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country Inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.
ralph waldo emerson— English Traits (1856)
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.
fernando pessoa— Original: Considero a vida uma estalagem onde tenho que me demorar até que chegue a diligência do abismo. Não sei onde ela me levará, porque não sei nada.
— A Factless Autobiography, Richard Zenith Edition, Lisbon, 2006, p. 40
For the next Inn he spurs amain,In haste alights, and skuds away,But time and tide for no man stay.
william somervile— The Sweet-Scented Miser, line 98.
We are pilgrims, not settlers; this earth is our Inn, not our home.
john heyl vincent— p. 206. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
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— March 21, 1776, p. 287.
Good thoughts his only friends; His wealth a well-spent age; The earth his sober Inn, And quiet pilgrimage.
thomas campion— The Man Upright of Life.
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, reported in James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson (1776).
Shall I not take mine ease in mine Inn?
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I (c. 1597), Act III, scene 3, line 92.
The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day: Now spurs the lated traveler apace To gain the timely Inn.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Macbeth (1605), Act III, scene 3, line 7.
Whoe'er has travel'd 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 Shenstone, written at an Inn at Henley. Different version in Dodsley's Collection.
To that dark Inn, the Grave!
walter scott— Walter Scott, The Lord of the Isles, VI, line 26.
We are pilgrims, not settlers; this earth is our Inn, not our home.
— John Heyl Vincent, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 206.
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.
— Original: Considero a vida uma estalagem onde tenho que me demorar até que chegue a diligência do abismo. Não sei onde ela me levará, porque não sei nada.
— A Factless Autobiography, Richard Zenith Edition, Lisbon, 2006, p. 40
Shall I not take mine ease in mine Inn, but I shall have my pocket picked?
— Falstaff, scene iii
Now spurs the lated traveller apace To gain the timely Inn; and near approaches The subject of our watch.
— First Murderer, Scene III
