Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time

Quote by George Bernard Shaw

Topics: Chess Quotes

The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a...

The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a...

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

Nobel prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the...

Nobel prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the...

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting...

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting...

When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants...

When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants...

Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to...

Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to...

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as...

To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as...

Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization

Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he...

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he...

We need men who can dream of things that never were, and ask why not.

We need men who can dream of things that never were, and ask why not.

The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves

The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder...

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder...

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his...

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his...

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are...

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are...

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.