Famous quotes containing the words custom, dice and/or game:
“I can hardly bring myself to caution you against drinking, because I am persuaded that I am writing to a rational creature, a gentleman, and not to a swine. However, that you may not be insensibly drawn into that beastly custom of even sober drinking and sipping, as the sots call it, I advise you to be of no club whatsoever.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“The dice of God are always loaded.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)