Young Thoroughbred Player

Famous quotes containing the words young, thoroughbred and/or player:

    ““Oh, where have you been, Billy boy, Billy boy?
    Oh, where have you been, charming Billy?”
    “I’ve been to seek a wife,
    She’s the joy of my life,
    She’s a young thing, and cannot leave her mother.””
    —Unknown. Billy Boy (l. 1–5)

    “A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking into his accounts.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady’s window.”
    —Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)