Quotes on games
You don't have to be a beer drinker to play darts, but it helps.
Unknown, Author
I haven't had sex in eight months. To be honest, I now prefer to go bowling.
Jones, Kimberly
The bowling alley is the poor man's country club.
Hansell, Sanford
Whoever called snooker "chess with balls" was rude, but right.
James, Clive
An apocryphal story - the word "apocryphal" here means "obviously untrue" - tells of two people, long ago, who were very bored, and that instead of complaining about it they sat up all night and invented the game of chess so that everyone else in the world, on evenings when there is nothing to do, can also be bored by the perplexing and tedious game they invented.
Snicket, Lemony
Life's too short for chess.
Byron, Henry James
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.
Milne, A.A.
One of the advantages bowling has over golf is that you seldom lose a bowling ball.
Carter, Don
Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time.
Shaw, George Bernard
It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
Mencken, H.L.
Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe.
Proverb, Indian
Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.
Lamb, Charles