“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.”
Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914–1999) Argentine novelist
"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.”
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …
“Life isn't fair, so you have to play the best game you can with the cards you're dealt.”
Marta Acosta American novelist
Source: Dark Companion
Josh Billings (1818–1885) American humorist
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”
Ludwig Wittgenstein book Philosophical Investigations
uses, institutions
§ 199
Philosophical Investigations (1953)
“Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.”
Jerome David Salinger book The Catcher in the Rye
Mr. Spencer
Source: The Catcher in the Rye (1951), Chapter 2
Anatol Rapoport (1911–2007) Russian-born American mathematical psychologist
Source: 1960s, "The Use and Misuse of Game Theory," 1962, p. 108