Bridge Players Quotes

#1. Superficially my war was a comfortable exercise in futility carried out in a grand Scottish hotel amongst the bridge players and swillers of easy-come-by whisky. My chest got me out of active service and into guilt, as I wrote two, or is it three of the novels for which I am now acclaimed.

Patrick White

#2. At 2:00 sharp on the afternoon of his internment, with his body resting in a casket in the front room of his home, the pallbearers--all bridge players--stuck a deck of cards in Mr. Hampton's cold hands, shut the lid over his head, and played bridge.

Brenda Sutton Rose

#3. A surface separates inside form out and belongs no less to one than the other.

Don DeLillo

#4. It is part of the irony of life that the strongest feelings of devoted gratitude of which human nature seems to be susceptible, are called forth in human beings towards those who, having the power entirely to crush their earthly existence, voluntarily refrain from using that power.

John Stuart Mill

#5. Canasta is a new game that bids fair to rival Bridge as a popular partnership game for four players. It's fast, exciting and dramatic; a single play, according to experts, can make a difference of 5,000 points.

Albert H. Morehead

#6. And Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, said in 1943, I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.

Michio Kaku

#7. It is done ... the precious portrait placed in the hands of the gentlemen for safe keeping.

Dolley Madison

#8. And this, too, shall pass away.

Abraham Lincoln

#9. Sometimes I get a little manic and you can't stop me. I'm all over the place. I have fun.

Dom DeLuise