Alfred Sheinwold Quotes

#1. Mistress of love or of hate, occult science can dispense paradise or hell at its pleasure to human hearts; it disposes of all forms and confers beauty or ugliness; with the wand of Circe it changes men into brutes and animals alternately into men.

Eliphas Levi

#2. Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.

Alfred Sheinwold

#3. Maybe we slip in and out of alternate worlds through our minds and our imaginations, picking up scar tissue from other dimensions.

Lang Leav

#4. The real test of a bridge player isn't in keeping out of trouble, but in escaping once he's in.

Alfred Sheinwold

#5. It's not enough to win the tricks that belong to you. Try also for some that belong to the opponents.

Alfred Sheinwold

#6. Who needs psychiatrists? Who needs grief counsellors and life coaches and motivational speakers? Fuck all that! Just stare at the night sky and let yourself get lost in it every now and then.

J.A. Redmerski

#7. A wall is a very big weapon. It's one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.

Banksy

#8. One advantage of bad bidding is that you get practice at playing atrocious contracts.

Alfred Sheinwold

#9. Since the average person's small supply of politeness must last him all his life, he can't afford to waste it on bridge partners.

Alfred Sheinwold

#10. Life was about to begin, so Arsenal had to go.

Nick Hornby