Barnes Tavern

Famous quotes containing the words barnes and/or tavern:

    “The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.”
    —Djuna Barnes (1892–1982)

    “Arrive at New Orleans, a city of ships, steamers, flatboats, rafts, mud, fog, filth, stench, and a mixture of races and tongues. Cholera, “some.” [At] Planters’ Hotel. Mem:—Never get caught in a cheap tavern in a strange city.”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)