Fox Head Tavern

Famous quotes containing the words fox, head and/or tavern:

    The lily in splendor, the vine in her grace,
    The fox in the forest, all had their desire,
    As then I had mine, in the place that was happy and poor.
    Ruth Pitter (b. 1897)

    “Danger! What danger do you foresee?”
    Holmes shook his head gravely. “It would cease to be a danger if we could define it,” said he.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)

    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)