Quotes About Billiards

#1. I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards.

Yani Tseng

#2. We're playing strip billiards.

Roger Vadim

#3. A certain skill at billiards is the mark of a gentleman, but to play too well is the sign of a misspent youth.
Lucien Fairchild

Mary Jo Putney

#4. There was one planet off in the seventh dimension that got used as a ball in a game of intergalactic bar billiards. Got potted straight into a black hole.

Douglas Adams

#5. It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

H.L. Mencken

#6. Strictures, reproaches, and intemperate speeches from the Senator of Louisiana are really the wailings of an apostle of despair; he has lost control of himself, he is trying to play billiards with elliptical billiard balls and a spiral cue.

Huey Long

#7. Nature, it seems, is the popular name
for milliards and milliards and milliards
of particles playing their infinite game
of billiards and billiards and billiards.

Piet Hein

#8. Sex at the age of 90 is like playing billiards with a rope

Camille Paglia

#9. Every gentleman plays billiards, but someone who plays billiards too well, is no gentleman.

Thomas Jefferson

#10. A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It's more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together.

Madeleine Albright

#11. Miniature golf, like billiards, is a game of angles. And, like billiards, most of the fun is in pretending you know what the hell you're doing. The worse you do, the more you have to laugh.

Victor LaValle

#12. Fishing is not like billiards, in which it is possible to attain a disgusting perfection.

Arthur Ransome

#13. To play billiards well was a sign of an ill-spent youth

Herbert Spencer

#14. I learned to approach racing like a game of billiards. If you bash the ball too hard, you get nowhere. As you handle the cue properly, you drive with more finesse.

Juan Manuel Fangio

#15. Don't you dare send me away, you c-coward. Who else would love my freckles? Who
else would care that my feet were cold? Who else would ravish me in the billiards
room?

Lisa Kleypas

#16. To play billiards well is the sign of a misspent youth.

Herbert Spencer

#17. "And then we played Ping-Pong - "
"Not pool? I always assumed he was a billiards man - I mean, it's so handy the way he keeps a stick up his -

Claire LaZebnik

#18. It must have been unpleasant to be discussed as a curiosity, spoken about over breakfast, and between rounds at billiards, as if one's soul were a common property.

Eleanor Catton

#19. His billiards lessons regarding double kisses, push strokes, butt caps, creeping angles of incidence, and snatches began to sound like flirting.

Jennifer Harrison

#20. I read of one planet off in the seventh dimension that got used as a ball in a game of intergalactic bar billiards. Got potted straight into a black hole. Killed ten billion people.

Douglas Adams

#21. They're soul mates. She has about as much brain as a retarded billiards ball, and he approximately the same.

P.G. Wodehouse

#22. Backward now?' he suggested.
'Are you going to call out our lovemaking like a billiards game?

Julie Anne Long

#23. A sign read "Free drinks for billiards competitors only." Hand-lettered below read "All others will pay." It was written in blood. I could tell because a red fairy with what looked like black insect wings was writing it at the time, with his own dismembered finger.

Red Tash

#24. I'm a championship handball player. I'm a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I'm really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard.

Action Bronson

#25. Drama is played at the pace of chess ... or billiards ... or poker. Engrossing? Sure. But comedy is played at the jubilant, high-octane speed of sports like basketball or hockey.

Mark Waters

#26. Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness ... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

Blaise Pascal

#27. Stretched and skewed
Tap of the 8-ball and the cue
Scratches fall through
They are the scars of you

Criss Jami

#28. He won every game, yet she hardly noticed. As long as she hit the ball, it resulted in shameless bragging. When she missed - well, even the fires of Hell couldn't compare to the rage that burst from her mouth. He couldn't remember a time when he'd laugh so hard.

Sarah J. Maas

#29. There was something aggressively masculine about Toloose ... perhaps it was the look in his eye. Or the way he was holding his billiard cue. It was amazing the way a man in an embroidered coat could take on the air of a dockworker.

Eloisa James

#30. When you lose, let that be a lesson to you.
When you win - you don't learn anything.

Allan P. Sand

#31. To succeed, you must first believe you can.

Nikos Kazantzakis