Chess Lovers Quotes

#1. Those chess lovers who ask me how many moves I usually calculate in advance, when making a combination, are always astonished when I reply, quite truthfully, 'as a rule not a single one'

Richard Reti

#2. A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. Merit. Have you finally decided to ditch the zero and get with the hero? Ethan cleared his throat - loudly - while I bit back a smile.
I didn't see anything wrong with reminding Ethan that I had other options. Even if they were slightly goofy options I'd never actually take advantage of.

Chloe Neill

#4. Playing 10 years in the NHL, almost 600 games, there's going to be some wear and tear for everybody.

Mike Comrie

#5. Real limitations can be reasonably challenged and expanded, but a hobbled mind is not going anywhere.

Bryant McGill

#6. You can free things from alien or accidental laws, but not from the laws of their own nature. You may, if you like, free a tiger from his bars; but do not free him from his stripes.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#7. Spread love not hate, so that we can live and die in peace.

AKA

#8. If they blow it [the world] up, that's not my business. My business is to work.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

#9. Do what you're told, and everything will be all right.

Norman Jewison

#10. For chess, that superb, cold, infinitely satisfying anodyne to life, I feel the ardour of a lover, the humility of a disciple.

H. Russell Wakefield