Young Thoroughbred Player

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

    “There was a young lady called Alice
    Who peed in a Catholic chalice.
    The Padre agreed
    It was done out of need
    And not out of Protestant malice.”
    —Anonymous.

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

    “The chess-board is the world; the pieces are the phenomena of the universe; the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.”
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895)