Chess Quotes
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
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
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 as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside of an advertising agency.
Raymond Chandler
