“The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything”
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“The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything”
“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.”