John Boehner

I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation, I put my name forward and ran for office.

American Politician

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern, and tell stories. One person would chime in, then another, maybe someone would repeat a story they heard already but with a different spin. It's a collective process.

American Actor

Tom Robbins

I show up in my writing room at approximately 10 A.M. every morning without fail. Sometimes my muse sees fit to join me there and sometimes she doesn't, but she always knows where I'll be. She doesn't need to go hunting in the taverns or on the beach or drag the boulevard looking for me.

American Author

Katherine Dunn

We came to Portland because there was a good alternative public school. Friends who lived there told me about it, and my son loved it. I left his dad and went to work slinging hash in a breakfast diner and working nights tending bar in a biker tavern.

American Novelist

Gwendolyn Brooks

What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.

American Poet

Samuel Johnson

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

English Writer

Norman Douglas

Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.

British Writer

Matt Groening

I was always frightened by taverns. They just seemed like very unpleasant places to go.

American Cartoonist

Jonathan Swift

A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.

Irish Writer

Georg Trakl

Austrian Poet

Taverns are often friendly places where locals gather for leisure and socializing.

Social Setting

Taverns may have a rustic or traditional decor that adds to a cozy atmosphere.

Rustic Atmosphere

Unlike clubs, taverns are not mainly for dancing or loud music but for quiet enjoyment.

Not a Club

Historically, taverns provided lodging and were crucial for travelers before modern hotels.

Historic Rest

In history, taverns often served as information centers for travelers to share news.

Traveler's Hub

Understanding the role of taverns can provide insight into historical lifestyles and cultures.

Cultural Relic

 You know, you're sitting there, thinking a deep thought, the apple falls from the tree, and you have the theory of gravity. In fact, the spaces that have historically led to innovation tend to look like this. This is Hogarth's famous painting of a kind of political dinner at a tavern, but this is what the coffee shops looked like back then. This is the kind of chaotic environment where ideas were likely to come together,

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 and then they'd they'd put other stuff in it the little it all happened there's a people drink so much here that they drank the pub dry okay oh the tavern drive nice day so there and said okay how do I fix that up or like take words yeah come off the table and I mix something up and here it is for the next

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 But the impact of carrying out this unthinkable act proves to be more than he was prepared for. Though the novel is sometimes cited as one of the first psychological thrillers, its scope reaches far beyond Raskolnikov’s inner turmoil. From dank taverns to dilapidated apartments

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 But the consequences would be even higher for the tavern the punishment of diluting wine is death by drowning. The temple court is meeting this afternoon. Beltani has just a few short hours to find out whether there’s any truth to these allegations.

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 that I believe the koalas feature in this country is bleak very bleep the eucalyptus forests that have been home to koalas are being increasingly claimed and cleared for housing farms and roads and according to Deborah tavern the

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 it and that's the symbol of spring coming to the northern hemisphere that's so fascinating to think that our ancestors a thousand years ago were looking at the same night sky that we will if i've left the mosque for the tavern

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 somewhere within a four-mile radius of the town of Buford's tavern the quantity of treasure is enormous two thousand nine hundred and twenty one pounds of gold five thousand one hundred pounds of

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 grandfather or even your own dog this scratch board illustration shows what happened when a tavern keeper named Bridget bishop became the first person to be formally tried and hanged for the

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 house every 20 miles you could assume a tavern somewhere to get water and food scattered throughout that stretch as well it sounds like a very civilized version of a modern day turnpike

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 the dive team is hoping to find a tavern