Logo
It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at bill

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf. – Henry Louis Mencken

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Games
category

Games lubricate the body and the mind. – Benjamin Franklin

Category:
Games

It is impossible to win gracefully at chess. No man has yet said “Mate!” in a voice which failed to sound to his opponent bitter, boastful and malicious. – A.A. Milne, Not That It Matters, 1919

Category:
Games

As a game of mingled skill and chance, Billiards stands at the head of what may be called Indoor Athletics. Requiring far less mental exertion than Chess… it provides amusement for the mind, it also affords exercise for the body. – Captain Crawley (George Frederick Pardon, 1824–1884), The Billiard Book, 1

Category:
Games

When I play too many video games I begin to feel chubby-minded, caffeinated, bad. – Tom Bissell

Category:
Games

Random Quotes

Leadership is unlocking peoples potential to become better. – Bill Bradley

Category:
Leadership

Always be shorter than anybody dared to hope. – Lord Reading, on speechmaking

Category:
Speeches

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

Category:
Books

Im no romantic, surfing, California boy. I like reading, writing, philosophizing. Scheming. Ive been doing some exploration of the inner space. – Henry Hopper

Category:
Romantic