Playing Cards

Famous quotes containing the words playing and/or cards:

    “Lovely,
    this plowman’s son
    with the good-looking wife
    has gone so thin over you
    that the woman,
    though jealous,
    is playing the go-between herself!”
    —Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)

    “Oft have I played at cards and dice,
    Because they were so enticing;
    But this is a sad and sorrowful day
    To see my apron rising.”
    —Unknown. The Rantin Laddie (l. 1–4)