If you would read a mans Disposition, see him Game, you will then learn more of him in one hour, than in seven Years Conversation… – Richard Lingard, A Letter of Advice To A Young Gentleman Leaving the University,
Betting is the manure to which the enormous crop of horse-races and racehorse breeding in this and other countries is to a large extent due. – Richard Blackmore, The Jockey Club and its Founders, 1891
Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness. – Godfrey Reggio