Games

You can find out more about someone in an hours play than during a year of discussing

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game

Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose

Children's games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

Golf is a good walk spoiled

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business

Life must be lived as play

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game

And gain is gain, however small

The true object of all human life is play

Poets do not go mad, but chess players do

Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match

A child's a plaything for an hour

Nobody is going to let anybody's children play on something that is unsafe. There is just no way

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.