Top 12 Chequer Quotes
#1. This life is a perpetual chequer-work of good and evil, pleasure and pain. When in possession of what we desire, we are only so much the nearer losing it; and when at a distance from it, we live in expectation of enjoying it again.
Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
#2. Tis all a Chequer-board of nights and days
Where Destiny with men for Pieces plays:
Hither and thither moves, and mates,and slays,
And one by one back in the closet lays.
Omar Khayyam
#3. And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade,
Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.
Alexander Pope
#4. To many a youth and many a maid, dancing in the chequer'd shade.
John Milton
#5. Occasionally I do things against my inner voice, but you really should go for the thing that touches you most-even if you don't quite know why it does.
Alan Bates
#6. George W.Bush can go and kill thousands of Iraqis every day. By making people believe they are the enemy, and not human beings any more. If evil has an address, a nationality, you can exterminate all of them. This is fascism.
Marjane Satrapi
#7. We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does not know himself, how should he know his functions and powers?
Michel De Montaigne
#9. The world was out there waiting to be explored - and not just waiting, but wanting to be explored. So why in heaven's name shouldn't I investigate every nook and cranny?
Lauren Myracle
#11. Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
Emily Dickinson
#12. In my opinion, giving a kiss is a much better prize than receiving one.
Hiro Fujiwara