Quotes about solitaire

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

Quotes about solitaire

“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

“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

“(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

“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

“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

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