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"The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling." »Ambrose Bierce
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"gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich--something for nothing." »George Bernard Shaw
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"The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy." »Florence Shinn
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"Go around asking a lot of damfool questions and taking chances. Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only by gambling can we take advantage of them." »Clarence Birdseye
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"At points of clarity, I realize that my life on earth is meaningless, and that I am merely a pawn in a bigger game. A game I cannot possible understand or have control of. Thankfully, before depression sets in, I drift back into my cloudy, bewildered daily routine." »Joel Patrick Warneke
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"I see great things in baseball. It's our game--the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us." »Walt Whitman
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"Life is a game in which the rules are constantly changing nothing spoils a game more than those who take it seriously. Adultery Phooey You should never subjugate yourself to another nor seek the subjugation of someone else to yourself. If you follow that Crispian principle you will be able to say 'Phooey,' too, instead of reaching for your gun when you fancy yourself betrayed." »Quentin Crisp
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"Golf has too much walking to be a good game, and just enough game to spoil a good walk." »Harry Leon Wilson
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"My work is a game, a very serious game." »M. C. Escher
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"Ricky I don't know why we don't get a drink ... sittin inside this place. Bobby I promised Chloe we'd come here Ricky She doesn't even know where the hell she is, Bob. She'd have more fun if we were at Bodners. She could play the triva game like she likes it, or the little racing game thing she does. Bobby She's a little girl, little girl's don't like to go to bars. Ricky We had fun, we went to bars when we were kids ... met all the different people, right ...remember Slimmy" »Made
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"Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives." »Anonymous
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"...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend the disorderliness, friction, and unpredictability that pesters life; in their desire for a fresh start in a tidy habitat, germ-free and secured by angels, religious multitudes are gambling the only life they may ever have on a dark horse in a race that has no finish line."" »Tom Robbins, _Skinny Legs and All_, 1990, p. 305.
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"The game's not over until it's over." »Lawrence Peter Berra
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"If you don't like the game, get your kit off." »Aaron J. Munzer
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"The game is up." »William Shakespeare
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"The game is afoot." »Sir Arther Connan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes
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"Half this game is 90 mental." »Yogi Berra
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"Half this game is 90% mental." »Danny Ozark, manager of the Phillies
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"After the game, the king and pawn go into the same box." »Italian Proverb
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"Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you - if you don't play, you can't win." »Robert A. Heinlein
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"I was not successful as a ballplayer, as it was a game of skill." »Casey Stengel
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"Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box." »Italian Proverb
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"If your life was a video game, would you turn it off?" »Devo
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"Our situation has the disaffected beauty of a chess game." »Alan Moore, The league of extraordinary gentlemen, chapter 5
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"My favorite part of the game is the opportunity to play." »Mike Singletary
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"Ninety-nine percent of this game is half mental." »Lawrence Peter Berra
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"Golf isn't a game, it's a choice that one makes with one's life." »Charles Rosin
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"The guy with the biggest stomach will be the first to take off his shirt at a baseball game." »Glenn Dickey
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"Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness." »M. Hirschfield
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"I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out." »Rodney Dangerfield
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