Famous quotes containing the words custom, dice and/or game:
“People who love only once in their lives are ... shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellectsimply a confession of failures.”
—Oscar Wilde (18541900)
“Often beneath the wave, wide from this ledge
The dice of drowned mens bones he saw bequeath
An embassy.”
—Hart Crane (18991932)
“It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belong to his Neighbour.”
—Joseph Addison (16721719)