Quotes about solitaire

A collection of quotes on the topic of solitaire, game, gaming.

Quotes about solitaire

Ralph Waldo Emerson photo

“Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and once it has done so, he/she will have to accept that his life will be radically changed.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Life , Game , Passion , Change
James Salter photo

“As I look back, I see that life is like a game of solitaire and every once in a while there is a move.”

James Salter book A Sport and a Pastime

Source: A Sport and a Pastime

Life , Game
Ernst Kaltenbrunner photo

“(While playing solitaire and sipping cognac) It's all a lot of crap. The game is up.”

Ernst Kaltenbrunner (1903–1946) Austrian-born senior official of Nazi Germany executed for war crimes

To Adolf Eichmann, about the war, at a mountain villa in Austria. Quoted in "The Last 100 Days" - by John Toland - 1966

Game
Denise Levertov photo

“Rain-diamonds, this winter morning, embellish the tangle of unpruned pear-tree twigs; each solitaire, placed, it appearrs, with considered judgement, bears the light beneath the rifted clouds — the indivisible shared out in endless abundance.”

Denise Levertov (1923–1997) Poet

Bearing the Light
Sands of the Well (1994)

Tree , Light , Winter

“I'd rather lose at pinochle than win at solitaire.”

Henry Schriver (1914–2011) American politician

Cows, Kids, and Co-ops

Maddox photo

“I hate the help screen, I hate the options, I hate the card graphics, I hate the default window size, everything. I HATE SOLITAIRE.”

Maddox (1978) American internet writer

I hate Solitaire http://maddox.xmission.com/solitaire.html.
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Hate , Help