Famous quotes containing the words custom, dice and/or game:
“How but in custom and in ceremony
Are innocence and beauty born?”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“The dice of God are always loaded.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Neighboring farmers and visitors at White Sulphur drove out occasionally to watch ‘those funny Scotchmen’ with amused superiority; when one member imported clubs from Scotland, they were held for three weeks by customs officials who could not believe that any game could be played with ‘such elongated blackjacks or implements of murder.’”
—For the State of West Virginia, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)