Chess and Life Quotes | Quotsagram

Chess is my life, but my life is not chess. -Anatoly Karpov

The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life. -Paul Morphy

In chess, as in life, a man is his own most dangerous opponent. -Vasily Smyslove

In life, as in chess, forethought wins. -Charles Buxton

Chess is not always about winning. Sometimes it's simply about learning, And so is life.

Chess is life. -Bobby Fischer

No one has ever won a game of chess by taking only forward moves. Sometimes you have to move backwards to take better steps forward. That's life.

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate. -Isaac Asimov

Cards and chess are the two most important games one should master, to master the life. -Gaurav(yourquote.in)

True love is like playing chess; a boy plays and always afraid of losing his queen and a girl risking everything just to protect her king.

Life is like chess. If you lose your queen, you'll probably lose the game.

Life is a kind of chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events. -Benjamin Franklin

Every man needs a woman when his life is a mess, because just like in a game of chess, the queen protects the king.

Life is a game of Tetris; stop playing it like chess.

Life is like a game of chess. I cannot undo the moves, but I can make the next step better. -Edwin Tan

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Funny Golf Quotes | Quotsagram

Golf is our favorite course.

There are more things to life than Golf... But I ignore them.

Happiness is a long walk with a putter. -Greg Norman

Cooking is like golf. You slice it, chip it and put it on some greens.

Golf is a game in which you yell 'fore', shoot six, and write down five. Paul Harvey

If you think its hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball. -Jack Lemmon

I didn't miss the putt. I made the putt. The ball missed the hole. -Peter Jacobsen

Golf combines two American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick. -P.J O'Rourke

If it goes right, it's a slice. If it goes left, it's a hook. If it goes straight, it's a miracle.

To find a man's true character, play golf with him. -P.G Wodehouse

Saying golf is just a game is like saying an astronaut is just a pilot.

Golfing the way I do takes lots of balls.

Golf is harder than baseball. In golf, you have to play your foul balls.

When your shot has to carry over a water hazard, you can either use one more club or two more two balls.

Born to golf but forced to work.

Golf is an expensive way of playing marbles.

My golf game is getting better. I miss the hole nearer now.

Golf balls are like eggs.. They are white. They are sold by the dozen. And a week later you have to buy more. -anonymous

I stay cool on the course. I hit the woods for the shade, then the pond to cool off.

It's an easy game, Just hard to play.

They named it golf because all the other four-letter words were taken.

Don’t play too much golf.  Two rounds a day are plenty. -Harry Vardon

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Funny Chess Quotes Collection | Quotsagram

We don’t really know how the game was invented, though there are suspicions. As soon as we discover the culprits, we’ll let you know. -Bruce Pandolfini

When you absolutely don’t know what to do anymore, it is time to panic. -John van der Wiel

The stomach is an essential part of the Chess master. -Bent Larsen

The only thing Chess players have in common is Chess. -Lodewijk Prins

I had a toothache during the first game. In the second game I had a headache. In the third game it was an attack of rheumatism. In the fourth game, I wasn’t feeling well. And in the fifth game? Well, must one have to win every game? -Siegbert Tarrasch

Fischer prefers to enter Chess history alone. -Miguel Najdorf

It is always better to sacrifice your opponent’s men. -Savielly Tartakower

Pawns are born free, yet they are everywhere in chains. -Rick Kennedy

There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones, and mine. -Mikhail Tal

A man ceases to be a beginner in chess and becomes a master when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life. -R.G. Collingwood

After a bad opening, there is hope for the middle game. After a bad middle game, there is hope for the endgame. But once you are in the endgame, the moment of truth has arrived. -Edmar Mednis

Chess is not like life... It has rules. -Mark Pasternak

When you play Bobby, it is not a question if you win or lose. It is a question if you survive. -Boris Spassky

I failed to make the chess team because of my height. -Woody Allen

I still hope to kill Fischer. -Boris Spassky

It is difficult to play against Einstein’s theory. -Mikhail Tal (when he lost his first game against Fischer)

The Pin is mightier than the sword. -Fred Reinfeld

Of Chess it has been said that life is not long enough for it, but that is the fault of life, not Chess. -William Ewart Napier

The passed Pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not sufficient. -Aaron Nimzovich

No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness. -Viktor Korchnoi

That’s what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one. -Bobby Fischer

The essence of Chess is thinking about what Chess is. -David Bronstein

Love is like a game of chess. One wrong move and you are married.

Arguing with an idiot is like playing chess with a pigeon. It'll just knock over all the pieces, shit on the board, and strut about like it's won anyway. -Anonymous

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Gardening Quotes Collection | Quotsagram

Gardening requires lots of water; most of it in the form of perspiration. -Lou Erickson

To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow. -Audrey Hepburn

Gardening is about enjoying the smell of things growing in the soil, getting dirty without feeling guilty, and generally taking the time to soak up a little peace and serenity. -Lindley Karstens

You must fail at gardening to master it.

Anyone who has time for drama is not gardening enough.

Gardening is the work of a lifetime you never finish. -Oscar De La Renta

All gardening is landscape painting. -William Kent

Gardening is the slowest of the performing arts. -Mac Griswold

In every gardener, there is a child who believes in the seed fairy.

The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies. -Gertrude Jekyll

Gardening: the fine art of soul to soil. -Jan Bills

All gardeners know better than other gardeners. -Chinese Proverb

An optimistic gardener is one who believes that whatever goes down must come up. -Leslie Hall

My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society. -Andrew Weil

Gardeners don't get old. They go to pot.

I like gardening. It’s a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself. -Alice Sebold

I grow plants for many reasons; to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty, or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow. -David Hobson

Gardening is cheaper than therapy and you get tomatoes.

Garden as though you will live forever. -William Kent

When the world wearies and society fails to satisfy, there is always the garden. -Minnie Aumonier

Gardening is how I relax. It’s another form of creating and playing with colors. -Oscar de la Renta

Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed. - Lewis Gannit

Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it. -anonymous

Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas. -Elizabeth Murray

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Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint and the soil and sky as canvas. -Elizabeth Murray

Life begins the day you start a garden. -Chinese Proverb

I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden. -Ruth Stout

Count the garden by the flowers, not the leaves that fall. Count your life by smiles, not the tears that roll.

More grows in the garden than the gardener sows.-Spanish Proverb

In my garden there is a large place for sentiment.  My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams.  The thoughts grow as freely as flowers and the dreams are as beautiful. -Abram L. Urban

Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything; except itself. -May Sarton

One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides. -W.E Johns

Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful’, and sitting in the shade. -Rudyard Kipling

A gardener learns more in the mistakes than in the successes. -Barbara Dodge Borland

Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized. -Allan Armitage

Weather means more when you have a garden. -Marcelene Cox

We may think we are nurturing our garden, but of course it's our garden that is really nurturing us. -Jenny Uglow

The garden is the poor man’s apothecary. -German Proverb

Gardeners learn by trowel and error.

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece. -Claude Monet

As a gardener, I’m among those who believe that much of the evidence of God’s existence has been planted. Robert Brault

A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library. -Henri-Frederic Amiel

Among gardeners, enthusiasm and experience rarely exist in equal measures. -Roger B. Swain

An addiction to gardening is not all bad when you consider all the other choices in life. -Cora Lea Bell

Almost any garden, if you see it at just the right moment, can be confused with paradise. -Henry Mitchell

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Best Business Lesson Quotes from the World of Chess | Quotsagram

Winning is not a secret that belongs to a very few, winning is something that we can learn by studying ourselves, studying the environment and making ourselves ready for any challenge that is in front of us. -Garry Kasparov

Self-confidence is very important. If you don’t think you can win, you will take cowardly decisions in the crucial moments, out of sheer respect for your opponent. Magnus Carlsen

The move is there, but you must see it. -Savielly Tartakower

It is better to overestimate your prospects than underestimate them. -Magnus Carlsen

Good positions don’t win games, good moves do. -Gerald Abrahams

It is not enough to be a good player. you must also play well. -Siegbert Tarrasch

The beauty of a move lies not in its appearance but in the thought behind it. -Aaron Nimzovich

When you see a good move, look for a better one. -Emanuel Lasker

It is not a move, even the best move that you must seek, but a realizable plan. -Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it’s okay to lose. I don’t. You have to be merciless. -Magnus Carlsen

Drawing general conclusions about your main weaknesses can provide a great stimulus to further growth. -Alexander Kotov

Be a harsh critic of your own wins. -Vasilios Kotronias

Don't be afraid of losing, be afraid of playing a game and not learning something. -Dan Heisman

You have to have the fighting spirit. You have to force moves and take chances. -Bobby Fischer

Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation. -Max Euwe

An innovation need not be especially ingenious, but it must be well worked out. -Paul Keres

Confidence is very important, even pretending to be confident. If you make a mistake but do not let your opponent see what you are thinking, then he may overlook the mistake. -Viswanathan Anand

Haste is never more dangerous than when you feel that victory is in your grasp. -Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

A bad plan is better than none at all. -Frank Marshall

No one ever won a game by resigning. -Saviely Tartakower

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Confucius Quotes Collection | Quotsagram

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve, and bad things are very easy to get.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals; adjust the action steps.

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/ him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

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Wine Quotes #4 | Quotsagram

A man, fallen on hard times, sold his art collection but kept his wine cellar. When asked why he did not sell his wine, he said, “A man can live without art, but not without culture".

Wine connects man and nature and time in a way nothing else does. -Hugh Johnson

Wine is a living liquid containing no preservatives. Its life cycle comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. When not treated with reasonable respect it will sicken and die.

The discovery of a good wine is increasingly better for mankind than the discovery of a new star. -Leonardo da Vinci

Making good wine is a skill; making fine wine is an art. -Robert Mondavi

Wine is perhaps the closest thing the planet has to an elixir of life. -Thom Elkjer

Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Drink a glass of wine after your soup, and you steal a ruble from the doctor. -Russian Proverb

Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water. -Benjamin Franklin

There are many ways to the recognition of truth, and Burgundy(a wine) is one of them. -Isak Dinesen

Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne(a wine) is just right. -Mark Twain

Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin(a wine). -Napoleon

I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a tax on the health of our citizens. -Thomas Jefferson

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. -Henny Youngman

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Gardening Quotes #2 | Quotsagram

We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden. -Anonymous

In a garden full of weeds, dare to be a flower.

If you want to be happy for a lifetime, be a gardener. -Chinese Proverb

Gardeners are like doctors; they both bury their mistakes.

Gardening begins with daybreak and ends with backache.

A man should never plant a garden larger than his wife can take care of.

When life gives you shit, grow a garden.

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

Don't wear perfume in the garden, unless you want to be pollinated by bees.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. -Francis Bacon

An addiction to gardening is not all bad when you consider all the other choices in life. -Cora Lee Bell

A gardener’s work is never at an end; it begins with the year and continues to the next. -John Evelyn

Gardening; it comes in handy when you need to hide the bodies.

God made rainy days so gardeners could get housework done.

The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world. -Vita Sackville-West

There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments. -Janet Kilburn Phillips

Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized. -Allan Armitage

Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time. -William Cowper

If you are a garden plant, you are regarded; well regarded, just as long as you stay in the garden. -Davies Gilbert

My idea of gardening is to discover something wild in my wood and weed around it with the utmost care, until it has a chance to grow and spread. -Margaret Bourke-White

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there. -David Hobson

Gardening is medicine that does not need a prescription and has no limit on dosage.

One is nearer God's heart in a garden than anywhere else on earth.

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Chess Quotes by World Champions | 96 Quotes

To be champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well. -Anatoly Karpov

Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan. -Alexander Alekhine

Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind. -Bobby Fischer

Chess mastery essentially consists of analyzing Chess positions accurately -Mikhail Botvinnik

I think that the World Champion should try to defend the quality of play more than anyone else. -Boris Spassky

Pawns not only create the sketch for the whole painting, they are also the soil, the foundation, of any position -Anatoly Karpov

Quiet moves often make a stronger impression than a wild combination with heavy sacrifices. -Mikhail Tal

If you want to become a World Champion you should avoid playing in open tournaments. -Anatoly Karpov

Contrary to many young colleagues I do believe that it makes sense to study the classics. -Magnus Carlsen

The best indicator of a Chess Player's form is his ability to sense the climax of the game. -Boris Spassky

The cherished dream of every chess player is to play a match with the World Champion. But here is the paradox: the closer you come to the realization of this goal, the less you think about it. -Mikhail Tal

You can only get good at chess if you love the game -Bobby Fischer

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Wine Quotes Collection #2 | Quotsagram

Great wine works wonders and is itself one. -Edward Steinberg

Every time I open a bottle of wine, it is an amazing trip somewhere. -Jose Andres

Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized. -Andre Simon

Wine is a passport to the world. -Thom Elkjer

His lips drink water but his heart drinks wine - E. E. Cummings

There comes a time in the day that no matter the question...the answer is wine.

The older the grape, sweeter the wine. -Janis Joplin

Start your day with coffee, end your day with wine.

Men are like a fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something you'd like to have dinner with. -Jill Shalvis

If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night. -D. H. Lawrence

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense. -Tennessee Williams

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more. -Carl Jung

As long as we have wine, the holidays will be fine.

Wine. Because it's not good to keep things bottled up.

Wine makes all things possible. -George R.R. Martin

This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. -Samuel Johnson

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Henry Ford Quotes Collection | Quotsagram

Don’t find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain.

To do more for the world than the world does for you, that is success.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

Money doesn’t make us, anyway, it just unmasks us.

There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail.

The unhappiest man on earth is the one who has nothing to do.

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

The partnership of mind and matter is one which has existed since the beginning of time and cannot be dissolved.

Those who stop marketing to save money are like those who stop a clock to save time.

Vision without execution is just hallucination.

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

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