[Quotation Index]


Quotations about Games


You don't have to be a beer drinker to play darts, but it helps.  ~Author Unknown


It is impossible to win gracefully at chess.  No man has yet said "Mate!" in a voice which failed to sound to his opponent bitter, boastful and malicious.  ~A.A. Milne, Not That It Matters, 1919


One of the advantages bowling has over golf is that you seldom lose a bowling ball.  ~Don Carter


Whoever called snooker "chess with balls" was rude, but right.  ~Clive James


Life's too short for chess.  ~Henry James Byron, Our Boys, 1874


It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.  ~Henry Louis Mencken


Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.  ~Charles Lamb


The bowling alley is the poor man's country club.  ~Sanford Hansell


Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe.  ~Indian Proverb


I haven't had sex in eight months.  To be honest, I now prefer to go bowling.  ~Kimberly Jones


Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time.  ~George Bernard Shaw






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