Woody Allen
Director, Actor, Writer
"I failed to make the chess team because of my height."
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Chess Game
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Seneca the Younger
Philosopher, Statesman
"Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness."
Soren Kierkegaard
Philosopher, Theologian
"I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved."
Benjamin Franklin
Inventor, Statesman, Author
"The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions, for life is a kind of chess."
Lord Byron
Poet, Novelist
"Life is too short for chess."
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"Life's too short for chess."
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"I feel like my mum is in heaven sharing a cup of tea with Lady Fate and plotting my life out like a chess game."
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