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)
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 epstein— Chapter Five, Coups And Games With Dice, p. 149
The world's an Inn; and I her guest.
Francis Quarles— On the World.
I 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— Gonzo Papers, Vol. 1: The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time (1979)
"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
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.
Inn of a traveller on his way to Jerusalem.
— Translation of the Latin on the monument of Dean Alford, Stanza Martin's Churchyard, Canterbury.
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— Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Quits. (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations)
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.
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.
I 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 Melville— Ch. 17 : The Ramadan
" Sunlight 's a thing that needs a window Before it enter a dark room. Windows don't happen." So two old poets, Hunched at their beer in the low haze Of an Inn parlour, while the talk ran Noisily by them, glib with prose.
r. s. thomas— "Poetry For Supper"
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.
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
For the next Inn he spurs amain, In haste alights, and skuds away, But time and tide for no man stay.
william somervile— William Somervile, The Sweet-Scented Miser, line 98.
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— John Dryden, Palamon and Arcite, Book III, line 2,159; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 911-17.
Nor is this lower world but a huge Inn, And men the rambling passengers.
james howell— James Howell, The Vote. Poem prefixed to his Familiar Letters; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 911-17.
