A man's idea in a card game is war--cruel, devastating and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement... and burglary.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Of course we will continue to work for cheaper electricity in the homes and on the farms of America; for better and cheaper transp...ortation; for low interest rates; for sounder home financing; for better banking; for the regulation of security issues; for reciprocal trade among nations and for the wiping out of slums. And my friends, for all of these we have only begun to fight.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is no legislation--I care not what it is--tariff, railroads, corporations, or of a general political character, that all equ...als in importance the putting of our banking and currency system on the sound basis proposed in the National Monetary Commission plan.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker... into the game?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One of life's primal situations; the game of hide and seek. Oh, the delicious thrill of hiding while the others come looking for y...ou, the delicious terror of being discovered, but what panic when, after a long search, the others abandon you! You mustn't hide too well. You mustn't be too good at the game. The player must never be bigger than the game itself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My first big mistake was made when, in a moment of weakness, I consented to learn the game; for a man who can frankly say "I do no...t play bridge" is allowed to go over in the corner and run the pianola by himself, while the poor neophyte, no matter how much he may protest that he isn't "at all a good player, in fact I'm perfectly rotten," is never believed, but dragged into a game where it is discovered, too late, that he spoke the truth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »