Explore Quotations, Proverbs & Sayings
Welcome to the biggest collection of quotations, proverbs and sayings! If you are looking for a specific quotation, proverb or saying, check our universal database. We have collected over 150,000 inspirational quotations, funny quotations, movie quotations, famous proverbs and cute sayings that we would like to share with you. Find quotations, proverbs and sayings for any occasion and view them all for free.
Browse quotations by author, topic or keyword.
Browse Keywords:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
(Click a letter to view the keywords)
Letter "C" » chess player
(Click a letter to view the keywords)
«One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.»
Author: Anatol Rapoport
| About:
Chess,
Play
| Keywords:
blacks, champion, chess, chess piece, chess player, common interest, The Blacks, The Whites, whites
«The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem... I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.»
Author: Marcel Duchamp
(Artist)
| Keywords:
abstractly, alphabet, alphabets, artists, block, board, chess, Chess Pieces, chess player, conclusion, design, players, poem, shapes, the Block, visual
«The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.»
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
(Biologist)
| About:
Law and lawyers,
Nature,
Universe,
World
| Keywords:
board, board game, chess, chess game, chess player, Laws of nature, Other side, phenomena, player, Rules of, the laws of nature, The other side, The Player, The Rules
«The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.»
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
chess, chess player, Christendom, implies, player, proficiency, struggles, undertakings, whist
«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.»
Author: Seneca
| Keywords:
chess, chess game, chess player, earthen, emptiness, manifest, pot, shattered
«A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness. This will apply to all displays of power or trials of skill, which are confined to the momentary, individual effort, and construct no permanent image or trophy of themselves without them.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
chess, chess player, confined, construct, terminate, terminated, terminates, terminating, trophies, trophy
Get access to over 800,000 college papers on the most popular topics for only $14.95/month.
Buy essay, term paper or research paper on the specific topic at a cheap price and get a discount!
Buy essay, term paper or research paper on the specific topic at a cheap price and get a discount!
