Inns Quotes - Page 3

• The nice thing about being detained in Canada is it's like being in a Days Inn; it's very clean and very nice.

  Bill Ayers

  Nice, Canada, Clean

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• We are pilgrims, not settlers; this earth is our inn, not our home.

  John H. Vincent

  Home, Earth, Pilgrim

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 206, 1895.

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• I shall desire and I shall find
  The best of my desires;
  The autumn road, the mellow wind
  That soothes the darkening shires.
  And laughter, and inn-fires.

  Rupert Brooke

  Laughter, Autumn, Fire

  Rupert Brooke (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)”, p.61, Delphi Classics

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• I cheerfully quit from life as if it were an inn, not a home; for Nature has given us a hostelry in which to sojourn, not to abide.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Death, Home, Quitting

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• The body is not a permanent dwelling, but a sort of inn which is to be left behind when one perceives that one is a burden to the host.

  Seneca the Younger

  Dwelling, Body, Host

  Epistulae ad Lucilium CXX

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• And all over the countryside, he knew, on every crest and hill, where once the hedges had interlaced, and cottages, churches, inns, and farmhouses had nestled among their trees, wind wheels similar to those he saw and bearing like vast advertisements, gaunt and distinctive symbols of the new age, cast their whirling shadows and stored incessantly the energy that flowed away incessantly through all the arteries of the city. ... The great circular shapes of complaining wind-wheels blotted out the heavens.

  H. G. Wells

  Cities, Wind, Tree

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.843, Delphi Classics

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• Clouseau: Does yer dewg bite? Inn Keeper: No Clouseau: Nice Doggy (bends down to pet a dachshund - it snarls and bites him) I thought you said yer dewg did not bite! Inn Keeper: Zat . . . iz not my dog!

  Peter Sellers

  Dog, Nice, Pet

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• Sometimes all you need is to climb a simple hill, to spend time staring at an empty horizon, to jump into a cold river or sleep under the stars, or perhaps share a whisky at a small country inn in order to remind yourself what matters most to you in life.

  Alastair Humphreys

  Country, Stars, Sleep

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• For the world, I count it not an inn, but a hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in.

  Thomas Browne

  Life, Science, World

  Religio Medici pt. 2, sec. 11 (1643)

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• On the road halfway between faith and criticism stands the inn of reason. Reason is faith in what can be understood without faith, but it's still a faith, since to understand presupposes that there's something understandable.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Philosophical, Criticism, Reason

  Fernando Pessoa (2002). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.169, Penguin UK

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• Japan is the most intoxicating place for me. In Kyoto, there's an inn called the Tawaraya which is quite extraordinary. The Japanese culture fascinates me: the food, the dress, the manners and the traditions. It's the travel experience that has moved me the most.

  Roman Coppola

  Japan, Kyoto, Dresses

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't have to ask you where you've been, cause the matches in your purse say Holiday Inn.

  Coolio

  Holiday, Infidelity, Purses

  Song: Too Hot, Album: Fantastic Voyage: The Greatest Hits

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• Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Night, Definitions, Life Is

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• For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap colored prints; unfashionable literature, church Latin, pornographic books badly spelt, grandmothers novels, fairy stories, little books for children, old operas, empty refrains, simple rhythms.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Love, Children, Latin

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• These people shred. That's what I was saying about Nashville-you can go to an open mic night at the Holiday Inn and probably see more talented musicians than the ones touring. When we first came down here I was like, "Wow I'm glad we didn't cut our teeth down here, there's so much competition." You're being challenged constantly because you're surrounded by these amazing musicians.

  Lzzy Hale

  Holiday, Cutting, Night

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• A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.

  William Hazlitt

  Journey, Men, Long

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• The Americans make associations to give entertainment, to found seminaries, to build inns, to construct churches, to diffuse books, to send missionaries to the antipodes; in this manner, they found hospitals, prisons and schools.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Book, School, Giving

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• And therefore education at the University mostly worked by the age-old method of putting a lot of young people in the vicinity of a lot of books and hoping that something would pass from one to the other, while the actual young people put themselves in the vicinity of inns and taverns for exactly the same reason.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, People, Age

  "Interesting Times". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1994.

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• There are many Green Dragons in this world of wayside inns, even as there are many White Harts, Red Lions, Silent Women and other incredible things.

  William Henry Hudson

  Dragons, White, World

  William Henry Hudson (1923). “The Collected Works of W. H. Hudson: A traveller in little things”

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• I bet this is a brothel," she whispered to Gendry. "You don't even know what a brothel is." "I do so," she insisted. "It's like an inn, with girls.

  George R. R. Martin

  Girl, Brothels, Knows

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1788, Bantam

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• 5.Buggre Alle this for a Larke I amme sick to mye Hart of typefetinge. Master Biltonn if no Gentelmann, and Master Scagges now more that a tighte fisted Southwarke Knobbefticke. I telle you, onne a daye laike thif Ennywone withe half and oz of Sense shoulde bee oute in the Suneshain, ane nott Stucke here alle the lielong dale inn thif mowldey olde By-Our-Lady Workefhoppe *AE@;I*

  Terry Pratchett

  Sick, Half, Bees

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• But there was no room at the inn"; the inn is the gathering place of public opinion; so often public opinion locks its doors to the King.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Kings, Doors, Public Opinion

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• Dawn was coming. The Waystone Inn lay in silence, and it was a silence of three parts.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Silence, Three, Dawn

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.12, Penguin

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• Vishous screamed. The only thing that was louder was the pop as the hip was relocated, as it were. And the last thing he saw before he checked out of the Conscious Inn & Suites was Jane's head whipping around in a panic. In her eyes was stark terror, as if the single worst thing that she could imagine was him in agony... And that was when he knew that he still loved her.

  J.R. Ward

  Eye, Agony, Panic

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• What is meditation?... It is fleeing from the self, it is a short escape of the agony of being a self, it is a short numbing of the senses against the pain and the pointlessness of life. The same escape, the same short numbing is what the driver of an ox-cart finds in the inn, drinking a few bowls of rice wine or fermented coconut-milk.

  Hermann Hesse

  Pain, Drinking, Wine

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.1457, Google Publishing

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