Famous quotes containing the words based, gaming and/or company:
“In tennis, at the end of the day youre a winner or a loser. You know exactly where you stand.... I dont need that anymore. I dont need my happiness, my well-being, to be based on winning and losing.”
—Chris Evert (b. 1954)
“Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsocial man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good.”
—Samuel Johnson (17091784)
“Some fluctuating notions concerning repentance, virtue, honor, morality ... hovered around Lady Dellwyns thoughts but were too wavering to bring her to any fixed determination. She became a constant attendant from one public place to another, where she met with many mortifications. But yet even these were not quite so dreadful to her as to retire and be subjected to her own company alone.”
—Sarah Fielding (17101768)