“Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation....” — Edward Moore Quote

“Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll find a congregation in every tavern.”

“Time, still as he flies, adds increase to her truth, and gives to her mind what he steals from her youth.”

“'Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.”

“No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.”

“I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't afford to shoot it. They needed a fight scene, though, so I was told to put a fight scene in, but not the one I had written.”

“The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.”