Chess is a contest between two men which lends itself particularly to the conflicts surrounding aggression.

Discovered check is the dive bomber of the Chessboard

I'd rather have a Pawn than a finger

Believe firmly that in chess there are no rules without exceptions.

A plan is made for a few moves only, not for the whole game.

The king is a strong piece - use it !

Chess is like a delicious drug which offers such heavenly delights that they can never tear themselves away from it completely.

The profuse phallic symbolism of chess provides some fantasy gratification of the homosexual wish, particularly the desire for mutual masturbation.

[Jo to her mother] I knew there was mischief brewing. I felt it and now it's worse than I imagined. I just wish I could marry Meg myself, and keep her safe in the family.

Every man is worth just so much as the things about which he busies himself.

We're the most aggressively inarticulate generation to come along since, you know, a long time ago!

'Time to live dangerously. We're having pancakes.'

Temporize not! It is always injurious.

I used to play hockey when I was growing up. Everyone sort of learns how to skate and play hockey at an early age.

B.B. King will be remembered for his impressive skills on the guitar, that King defined the blue genre.

Square cuts which ordinarily would have flashed to the boundary earned only two, and I believe that those two innings would have been worth 150 apiece in a county match.

Secularism and Religion are both all about your personal performance. The Gospel is the performance of another applied to you.

True Excellence requires a worthy dream, a good Idea of how to realize it and the courage to risk failure to achieve it.