#chess

Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome. ↗

— Jerry Seinfeld

#board #chess #effect #except #flowing

The ability to get ahead in an organization is simply another talent, like the ability to play chess, paint pictures, do coronary bypass operations or pick pockets. ↗

— Robert Shea

#ahead #another #bypass #chess #get

Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people. ↗

— Nigel Short

#chess #got #kill #people #prepared

Chess is intellectual gymnastics. ↗

— Wilhelm Steinitz

#gymnastics #intellectual

Chess is not for timid souls. ↗

— Wilhelm Steinitz

#souls #timid

The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#duchess #earth #nothing #peasant #sees

Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game. ↗

— Wilhelm Steinitz

#capable #chess #during #evil #game

What do I do when we're not taping? Sit in a dark room and refine my plans for someday ruling Earth from a blimp. And chess. ↗

— Ryan Stiles

#dark #earth #i #i do #plans

If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story. ↗

— Rex Stout

#books #chess #chore #come #detective

Chess is not only knowledge and logic. ↗

— Alexander Alekhine

#knowledge #logic #only