Life is a game of chess and you never really know when you are winning or losing.
Adolfo Bioy Casares
There's so many lessons I get from chess, it's incredible, but I think the biggest thing for me has always been is that losing is learning.
Maurice Ashley
Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents.
Alexander Alexandrovich Alekhine
Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.
Alexander Alexandrovich Alekhine
In life, as in chess, forethought wins.
Charles Buxton
The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.
Viktor Korchnoi
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
I study chess eight hours a day, on principle.
Alexander Alexandrovich Alekhine
Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one's cone of vision, while standing in the right place at the right time. Like chess, or writing, it is a matter of choosing from among given possibilities, but in the case of photography the number of possibilities is not finite but infinite.
John Szarkowski
Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.
Seneca
Reading about baseball is a lot more interesting than reading about chess, but you have to wonder: Don't any of these guys ever go fishing?
Dave Shiflett
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
Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe.
Indian Proverb
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside of an advertising agency.
Raymond Chandler