“Life is a thing to be lived, not spent; to be faced, not ordered. Life is not a game of chess, the victory to the most knowing; it is a game of cards, one's hand by skill to be made the best of.”
Source: Second Thoughts Of An Idle Fellow
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English humorist 1859–1927Related quotes
“Life is a game of chess and you never really know when you are winning or losing.”
"La vida es una partida de ajedrez y nunca sabe uno a ciencia cierta cuándo está ganando o perdiendo."
Una muñeca rusa, 1991.
“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
“Life isn't fair, so you have to play the best game you can with the cards you're dealt.”
Source: Dark Companion
Josh Billings on Ice, and Other Things https://archive.org/details/joshbillingsoni00billgoog (1868), Chapter XXIV: "Perkussion Caps", p. 89; republished in The Complete Works of Josh Billings http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36556 (1876), Chapter 141: "Ods and Ens", p. 248. Often paraphrased as "Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well."
“To obey a rule, to make a report, to give an order, to play a game of chess, are customs”
uses, institutions
§ 199
Philosophical Investigations (1953)
“Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.”
Mr. Spencer
Source: The Catcher in the Rye (1951), Chapter 2
Source: 1960s, "The Use and Misuse of Game Theory," 1962, p. 108