Playing Cards

Famous quotes containing the words playing and/or cards:

    “And there were present
    the Picninnies,
    and the Jobillies,
    and the Garyulies,
    and the great Panjandrum himself,
    with the little round button at top;
    and they all fell to playing the game
    of catch-as-catch-can,
    till the gunpowder ran out at the heels of their boots.”
    —Samuel Foote (1720–1777)

    “Men disappoint me so, I disappoint myself so, yet courage, patience, shuffle the cards ...”
    —Margaret Fuller (1810–1850)