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“I got into a brawl one night in a saloon in Greenwich Village. Elia Kazan, a great director, saw me put out a couple of hecklers and figures there was some Big Daddy in me, just lyin' dormant. And out it came. People still do call me Big Daddy, but to me, inside, I'm no Big Daddy at all.”

People Stills Bigs Night Saws Figures Couple Directors Call Me Village Daddy One Night Dormant Saloons Greenwich Greenwich Village Hecklers Big Daddy

Author:Burl Ives

“Sometimes I need to reject the music proposed for my songs because the musicians misunderstand that the Fanny Crosby who once wrote for the people in the saloons has merely changed the lyrics. Oh my no. The church must never sing it's songs to the melodies of the world.”

People World Needs Sometimes Song Church Changed Musician Rejects Melody Saloons Crosby

Author:Fanny Crosby

“You sit back in the darkness, nursing your beer, breathing in that ineffable aroma of the old-time saloon: dark wood, spilled beer, good cigars, and ancient whiskey - the sacred incense of the drinking man.”

“If I had to choose between putting a saloon or a liberal church on a corner, I'd choose the saloon every time. People who drink up the pay check in the saloon are less likely to become Pharisees, thinking that they don't need the Great Physician, than those who weekly swill the soporific doctrine of man's goodness.”

People Ifs Thinking Men Needs Church Pay Drink Goodness Corners Alcohol Checks Doctrine Physicians Saloons Pharisees

Author:Jay Adams

“The semi-colon is a burp, a hiccup. It's a drunk staggering out of the saloon at 2 a.m., grabbing your lapels on the way and asking you to listen to one more story.”

Way Stories Asking Drunk Staggering Grabbing Saloons Hiccups

Author:James Scott Bell

“I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.”

Shows Sports Challenges Church Education Moral Dear Alcohol Show Me Show Business Dear God Saloons Universal Education Business Education

Book:Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ

Source: Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ

“The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow. It promises prosperity and sends adversity. It promises happiness and sends misery.... It is God's worst enemy and the devil's best friend.”

Enemy Worst Sorrow Promise Devil Adversity Misery Prosperity Liars Cheer Worst Enemy Good Cheer Saloons

Book:Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ

Source: Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ

“In one dancing saloon I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice: 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.'”

Art America Saws Please Criticism Method Dancing Rational Piano Printed Pianist Piano Lesson Saloons

Book:Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews

Source: Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews

“My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.”

Book Reading Dog Rings Pits Taverns Saloons

Book:Memorials of Thomas Hood, 2: Illustrated with Copies from His Own Sketches

Source: Memorials of Thomas Hood, 2: Illustrated with Copies from His Own Sketches

“There's something retro about your persona. It's like the pre-World War II generation of reporters - those unpretentious, working-class guys who hung around saloons and used rough language. Now they've all been replaced with these effete Ivy League elitists who swarm over the current media. Nerds - utterly dull and insipid.”

“I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines.”

Writing Said Jobs Newspapers Magazines Beer Cigarette Drank Hooked Busted Saloons

Author:Jimmy Breslin

“If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon.”

Ifs Drinking Living My Life Funny Drinking Saloons

Author:W. C. Fields

“I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet.”

Inspirational Felt Five Rocks Strength Standing Giants Invincible Saloons Hatchet

Author:Carrie Nation

“I wanted to get the guy who works next to me in the office something he really wants, but how do you wrap up a saloon?”

Want Wanted Guy Next Office Christmas Wraps Saloons

Author:Milton Berle