Subject: Activities » Games

Life’s too short for chess.

(1834 - 1884) - American born British dramatist & actor

Checkers taught me that a King is a man with another man on top of him, but life taught me that that's actually called a Queen.

(1973 – ) American comedian

The game of life is always called on account of darkness.

David Gerrold (1944 – ) science fiction author

My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.

(1956 – ) American comedian

Please don’t ask me what the score is, I’m not even sure what the game is.

(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist

I sold my memoirs of my love life to Parker Brothers – they’re going to make a game out of it.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at.

Childish Games: Those at which your wife beats you.

My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

A Smith and Wesson beats four aces.

Bridge is the only game that bruises more shins than hockey.

Roulette: A wheel that seldom takes a turn for the bettor.

One way to get a real kick out of bridge is to sit opposite your wife.

Sucker: Is this a game of chance?

Fields: Not the way I play it, no.

(1880 – 1946) comedian, actor, juggler & writer

Bridge: A game in which a wife is always eager to do her husband’s bidding.

[Poker] as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find outside an advertising agency.

(1888 – 1959) detective novelist & screenwriter

I think Foosball is a combination of soccer and shish kabobs.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian

I’d like to play a video game where you help the people who were shot in all the other games; it’d be called ‘Really Busy Hospital.’

(1973 – ) American comedian

The score never interested me, only the game.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol

Have ever played Strip Trivial Pursuit? … what that is… is you, sitting on a chair with no clothes on, feeling fat, watching someone fully clothed beat you at Trivial Pursuit.

(1981 – ) English writer, stand-up comedian & actress

Bridge is a friendly game invented by two married couples who disliked each other.