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Related Subjects: Food, Guests, Hospitality

1. Lodgings,—free from bugs and fleas, if possible,
   If you know any such.—ARISTOPHANES, The Frogs
   

2. Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men!—Bible, Jeremiah 9:2
   

3. Though I am an innkeeper, thank Heaven I am a Christian.—CERVANTES, Don Quixote
   

4. He knew the taverns well in every town.—CHAUCER, Canterbury Tales
   

5. 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, Boswell: Life
   

6. Souls of Poets dead and gone,
   What Elysium have ye known,
   Happy field or mossy cavern,
   Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern?—KEATS, Lines on the Mermaid Tavern
   

7. But I'm for toleration and for drinking at an inn,
   Says the old bold mate of Henry Morgan.—JOHN MASEFIELD, Captain Stratton's Fancy
   

8. He goes not out of his way, that goes to a good inn.—Proverb
   

9. A handsome hostess is bad for the purse.—Proverb
   

10. Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn?—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV
    

11. The red-nosed innkeeper of Daventry.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV
    

12. Now spurs the lated traveller apace
    To gain the timely inn.—SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth
    

13. Lastly and finally, mine host of the Garter.—SHAKESPEARE, The Merry Wives of Windsor
    

14. I reckon this always, that a man is never undone till he be hanged, nor never welcome to a place till some certain shot be paid and the hostess say "Welcome!"—SHAKESPEARE, The Two Gentlemen of Verona
    

15. The great advantage of a hotel is that ifs a refuge from home life.—BERNARD SHAW, You Never Can Tell
    

16. Whoe'er has travelled 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.—W. SHENSTONE, Written at an Inn at Henley