Famous quotes containing the words adventure, game and/or history:
“Happy a while in Paradise they lay;
But quickly woman longed to go astray:
Some foolish new adventure needs must prove,
And the first devil she saw, she changd her love:
To his temptations, lewdly she inclined
Her soul, and, for an apple, damnd mankind.”
—Thomas Otway (16521685)
“Peoples affections can be as thin as paper; life is like a game of chess, changing with each move.”
—Chinese proverb.
“The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.”
—Lytton Strachey (18801932)
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