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

There is but one good throw upon the dice, which is, to throw them away. – Author Unknown