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| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. |
| Games |
| As to cards and dice, I think the safest and best way is never to learn to play upon them, and so to be incapacitated for those dangerous temptations and encroaching wasters of time. Locke. | 1 |
| Let the world have their May games, wakes, and whatever sports and recreations please them, provided they be followed with discretion. Robert Burton. | 2 |
| Games lubricate the body and the mind. Franklin. | 3 |
| Games are good or bad as to their nature; all may be perverted. Dr. Johnson. | 4 |
| It is wonderful to see persons of sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards. Addison. | 5 |
| The games of the ancient Greeks were, in their original institutions, religious solemnities. Brande. | 6 |
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