Subject: Activities » Games

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

(1888 – 1959) detective novelist & screenwriter

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

(1980 – ) British comedian

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

The score never interested me, only the game.

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

Hot Potato is a very different game when the people playing are starving.

(1973 – ) American comedian

Sex is like a game of bridge… if you don't have a good partner, you need a good hand.

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

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

internet columnist

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

Life’s too short for chess.

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

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

(1962 – ) English stand-up comedian & actor

Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author

Sucker: Is this a game of chance?

Fields: Not the way I play it, no.

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

Childish Games: Those at which your wife beats you.

Children are the most desirable opponents at Scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.

(1950 – ) writer & humorist

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

(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist

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

(1956 – ) American comedian

A Smith and Wesson beats four aces.

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

David Gerrold (1944 – ) science fiction author

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

How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?

(1950 – ) comedian & television host

If I ever saw an amputee getting hanged, I'd probably just start calling out letters.

(1973 – ) American comedian