Careful Words

inn (n.)

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 (1714-1763): Written on a Window of an Inn.

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 (1709-1784): Life of Johnson (Boswell). Vol. vi. Chap. iii. 1776.

A hard beginning maketh a good ending.

John Heywood (Circa 1565): Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv.

Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn?

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 3.

Now spurs the lated traveller apace

To gain the timely inn.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Macbeth. Act iii. Sc. 3.

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 (1714-1763): Written on a Window of an Inn.