Subject: Activities » Games

Childish Games: Those at which your wife beats you.

Life is like a game of poker: If you don’t put any in the pot, there won’t be any to take out.

(1894 – 1975) American comedian

Life is a game, the object of which is to discover the object of the game.

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

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

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 gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

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

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

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

Here we have a game that combines the charm of a Pentagon briefing with the excitement of double-entry bookkeeping.

internet columnist

Scrabble was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia.

(1962 – ) English stand-up comedian & actor

Never do card tricks for the group you play poker with.

Sucker: Is this a game of chance?

Fields: Not the way I play it, no.

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

When in doubt, take the trick.

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

I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.

(1950 – ) writer & humorist

I was playing chess with my friend and he said ‘Let’s make this more interesting’ … so we stopped playing chess.

(1980 – ) British comedian

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

(1956 – ) American comedian

A mediocre player will sink to the level of his or her opposition.

The boomarang is Australia’s chief export (and then import.)

(1973 – ) American comedian