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 »
The kings of England formerly had their forests "to hold the king's game," for sport or food, sometimes destroying villages to cre...ate or extend them; and I think that they were impelled by a true instinct. Why should not we, who have renounced the king's authority, have our national preserves, where no villages need be destroyed, in which the bear and panther, and some even of the hunter race, may still exist, and not be "civilized off the face of the earth,"Mour forests, not to hold the king's game merely, but to hold and preserve the king himself also, the lord of creation,--not for idle sport or food, but for inspiration and our own true recreation? or shall we, like the villains, grub them all up, poaching on our own national domains?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They mistake who assert that the Yankee has few amusements, because he has not so many public holidays, and men and boys do not pl...ay so many games as they do in England, for here the more primitive but solitary amusements of hunting, fishing, and the like have not yet given place to the former. Almost every New England boy among my contemporaries shouldered a fowling-piece between the ages of ten and fourteen; and his hunting and fishing grounds were not limited, like the preserves of an English nobleman, but were more boundless even than those of a savage. No wonder, then, that he did not oftener stay to play on the common. But already a change is taking place, owing, not to an increased humanity, but to an increased scarcity of game, for perhaps the hunter is the greatest friend of the animals hunted, not excepting the Humane Society.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Neighboring farmers and visitors at White Sulphur drove out occasionally to watch 'those funny Scotchmen' with amused superiority;... when one member imported clubs from Scotland, they were held for three weeks by customs officials who could not believe that any game could be played with 'such elongated blackjacks or implements of murder.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now look, Winocki. There are two other men on this ship who washed up as pilots. But Martin's a bombardier and Hauser went in for ...navigation. And they're both good. You're a good gunner or you wouldn't have the rating you've got. We need you just like we need the whole gang. It takes all of us to make this ship function. Now get this into your head. We all belong to this airplane. Every man has got to rely on every other man to do the right thing at the right time. You played football, Winocki. You know how one man can gum up the works. You gotta play ball with us and play the game, or I'm gonna have to get rid of you.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 »