Inns Quotes

• Childbirth, as a strictly physical phenomenon, is comparable to driving a United Parcel truck through an inner tube.

  Dave Barry

  Driving, Truck, Childbirth

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys”, p.58, Ballantine Books

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• When you have lost your inns, drown your empty selves, for you will have lost the last of England.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Self, Lasts, England

  Hilaire Belloc (1955). “Essays”

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• This life at best is but an inn, and we the passengers.

  James Howell

  Life, Hotel, Passengers

  James Howell (1705). “Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ, familiar letters domestic and forren, by J.H. (A new volume of letters, by I. Howell. [Followed by] The vote). [2 vols. in 6 pt.]. With a fourth volume of new letters”, p.386

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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.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Beer, Men

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 2, p. 452 (21 March 1776)

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• Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn but I shall have my pocket picked?

  William Shakespeare

  Pockets, Ease, Mines

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 3, sc. 3, l. [91]

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• Where you have friends you should not go to inns.

  George Eliot

  Should

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.3620, ShandonPress

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• If die I must, let me die drinking in an Inn.

  Walter Map

  Death, Drinking, Alcohol

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• The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Morning, Sleep, Night

  "The Poetics of Reverie". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1960.

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• I knew that Jamaica Inn was going to make me a star.

  Maureen O'Hara

  Stars, Jamaica

  Maureen O'Hara, John Nicoletti (2005). “'Tis Herself: An Autobiography”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• We, some cast members and I, even went on a weekend trip together and spent the weekend at an inn, because we enjoy each other's company so much, and it was so cool.

  Victor Garber

  Weekend, Journey, Together

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't want to spend the next two years in Holiday Inns.

  Walter F. Mondale

  Holiday, Years, Two

  1976 On withdrawing from the presidential campaign.

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• Now musing o'er the changing scene Farmers behind the tavern screen Collect; with elbows idly press'd On hob, reclines the corner's guest, Reading the news to mark again The bankrupt lists or price of grain. Puffing the while his red-tipt pipe He dreams o'er troubles nearly ripe, Yet, winter's leisure to regale, Hopes better times, and sips his ale.

  John Clare

  Dream, Reading, Winter

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• I can only say the first thing that pops into my mind is I remember, years ago, seeing kind of a has-been country singer working - when I first moved to Nashville - in a bar in a Holiday Inn.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Country, Holiday, Nashville

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• Whoe'er has travell'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

  Life, Thinking, Dull

  'Written at an Inn at Henley' (1758).

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• Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.

  Sivananda

  Wise, Men, Doe

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• I said I didn't want to spend most of my life in Holidays Inns, but I've checked and they've all been redecorated. They're marvelous places to stay and I've thought it over and that's where I'd like to be.

  Walter F. Mondale

  Holiday, Want, Said

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• One's homesickness for Heaven finds at least an inn there; and it's an inn on the right road.

  Ruth Pitter

  Heaven, Homesick, Hotel

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• It was my first time in Kansas City. In about two or three days I had a gig at a place called The Monroe Inn.

  Jay McShann

  Kansas City, Two, Cities

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• After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze.

  Adelbert von Chamisso

  Journey, Together, Crowds

  Theodor Storm, Adelbert von Chamisso, Adalbert Stifter (2005). “Famous German Novellas of the 19th Century”, p.36, Mondial

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• The finest landscape in the world is improved by a good inn in the foreground.

  Samuel Johnson

  World, Landscape, Finest

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• Like pilgrims to th' appointed place we tend;
  The World's an Inn, and Death the journey's end.

  John Dryden

  Life, Death, Journey

  'Palamon and Arcite' (1700) bk. 3, l. 883

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• Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Life, Christian

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• To thee, fair Freedom! I retire From flattery, cards, and dice, and din: Nor art thou found in mansions higher Than the low cot, or humble inn.

  William Shenstone

  Art, Humble, Cards

  William Shenstone, David Mallet (1822). “The Poems of William Shenstone ...”, p.154

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• He who has not been at a tavern knows not what a paradise it is. O holy tavern! O miraculous tavern! - holy, because no carking cares are there, nor weariness, nor pain; and miraculous, because of the spits, which themselves turn round and round!

  Pietro Aretino

  Pain, Taverns, Care

  Quoted by Longfellow in Hyperion, Book III, Chapter II. "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", p. 394-395, 1922.

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• The journey is better than the inn".

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Journey

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