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Anybody on for a game of tennis?

—Shaw, George Bernard

If there is any game in the world that attracts the half- baked theorist more than cricket I have yet to hear of it.

—Trueman, Fred (Frederick Sewards)

   Art is a game only if you playat it, a mirror that reflects from the inside out.

—Piercy, Marge

Ful craftier to pley she was Than Athalus, that made the game First of the ches, so was his name.

—Chaucer, Geoffrey

Baseball is a Lockean game, a kind of contract theory in ritual form, a set of atomic individuals who assent to patterns of limited co-operation in their mutual interest.

—Novak, Michael

Village cricket spread fast through the land.In those days, before it became scientific, cricket was the best game in the world to watchöeach ball a potential crisis.

—Trevelyan, George Macaulay

  Bowls is a young man's game which old men can play.

—Bryant, David

Many continentals think life is a game, the English think cricket is a game.

—Mikes, George

Cricket is not illegal, for it is a manly game.

—Anne, Queen

There is a widely held and quite erroneously held belief that cricket is just another game.

—Edinburgh, Prince Philip, Duke of

Cricket is the greatest game that the wit of man has yet devised.

—Warner, Sir Pelham Plum

Cricket remains for me the game of games, the sanspareil, the great metaphor, the best marriage ever devisedof mind and body† For meit remainstheProust of pastimes, the subtlest and most poetic, the most past- and-present; whose beauty can lie equally in days, in a whole, or in one tiny phrase, a blinding split second.

—Fowles,John Robert

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

—Rogers,Will

It is far more than a game, this cricket.

—Cardus, Sir Neville

Fashion should be a game.

—Quant, Mary

Chameleons feed on light and air: Poet's food is love and game.

—Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Football, in itself, is a grand game fordeveloping a lad physicallyand also morally†but it is a viciousgame when it draws crowds of lads away from playing the game themselves to be merely onlookers at a few paid players.

—Baden-Powell, Robert Stephenson Smyth, 1st Baron

Forasmuch as there isgreat noise in the city caused by hustling over large balls, from which many evils may arise, which God forbid, we command and forbid on behalf of the King, on pain of imprisonment, such game to be used in the city in future.

—Edward II

Home I would go But that my doors are hateful to my eyes, Fill'd and damm'd up with gaping creditors, Watchful as fowlers when their game will spring.

—Otway,Thomas

Then he dropped two in at once, and leant over the bridge to see which of them would come out first; and one of them did; but asthey were both thesame size, he didn't know if it was the one which he wanted to win, or the other one. So the next time he dropped one big one and one little one, and the big one came out first, which waswhat hehad said it would do, and thelittle one came out last, which was what he had said it would do, so he had won twice† And that was the beginning of the game called Poohsticks.

—Milne, A(lan) A(lexander)

Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but it is hardly suitable for delicate boys.

—Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills

   'The game,'said he,'is never lost till won.'

—Crabbe, George

The game is so full of plot-interest and drama.

—Fry, C(harles) B(urgess)

How heroic to be able to suppress one's vanity to the extent of confessing that the game is too hard.

—James, Alice

So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she- bear coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?' So he died and she very imprudently married the barber; and there were present the Picninnies, and the Joblillies, and the Garyulies, and the Grand Panjandrumhimself, withthelittleround buttonat top; and they all fell to playing the game of catch-as- catch-can till the gunpowder ran out of theheels of their boots.

—Foote, Samuel

A decision of the courts decided that the game of golf may be played on a Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.

—Leacock, Stephen Butler

My advice to people today is as follows: If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you takethe energy processseriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.

—Leary,Timothy Francis

Tennis is a game of no use in itself.

—Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans

Cricket is a game of the most terrifying stresses with more luck about it than any other game I know. They call it a team game, but in fact it is the loneliest game of all.

—Aristotle

Play ball! Means something more than runs Or pitches thudding into gloves! Remember through the summer suns This is the game your country loves.

—Rice, Grantland

Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.

—Milne, A(lan) A(lexander)

: Oh, but thou dost not know What 'tis to die. :Yes, I do know, my Lord: 'Tis less than to be born; a lasting sleep; A quiet resting from all jealousy, A thing we all pursue; I know besides, It is but giving over of a game, That must be lost.

—Beaumont, Francis and Fletcher,John

I'm not saying my golf game went bad, but if I grew tomatoes they'd come up sliced.

—Trevino, Lee Buck

Praise the sports of the land And water, each oneö The bath by the beach, or the yacht on the seaö But of all the sweet pleasures Known under the sun; A good game of Croquet's the sweetest to me.

—Reid,Thomas Mayne

Well, if the worst comes in the end of all, it'll be great game to see if there's none to pity him but a widow woman, the like of me, has buried her children and destroyed her man.

—Synge,John Millington

For when the One Great Scorer comes To write against your name, He marksönot that you won or lostö But how you played the game.

—Rice, Grantland

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

—Hope, Bob originally LeslieTownes Hope

Aconspiracy iseverything thatordinary lifeisnot.It'sthe inside game, cold, sure, undistracted, forever closed off to us.We are the flawed ones, the innocents, trying to make some rough sense of the daily jostle.Conspirators have a logic and a daring beyond our reach.

—DeLillo, Don

If this can be termed the century of the common man, then soccer, of all sports, is surely his game† In a world haunted by thehydrogenand napalm bomb, thefootball field is a place where sanity and hope are still left unmolested.

—Rous, Sir Stanley

There is much of economic theory which is pursued for no better reason than its intellectual attraction; it is a good game. 402

—Hicks, SirJohn Richard

But what care I? It's the game that calls meö Simply to be on the field of play; How can it matter what fate befalls me, With ten good fellows and one good day!

—Milne, A(lan) A(lexander)

Anyway,I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's aroundönobody big, I meanö except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff.What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the clifföI mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be.

—Salinger,J(erome) D(avid)

They're killing the game with this phoney mystiqueötelling people that a guy needs the abilities of a brain surgeon to play left-guard for the Colts. Football is simply a game to keep the coalminers off the streets.

—Breslin,Jimmy

Being inpoliticsislikebeing a football coach.Youhaveto be smart enough to know the game and stupid enough to think it is important.

—McCarthy, EugeneJ(oseph)

  L'amour est un jeu, la poe¤  sie est unjeu, la vie doit devenir un jeu (c'est le seul espoir de nos luttes politiques) et 'la re¤  volution elle-me"  me est unjeu', comme disaient les plus conscients des re¤  volutionnaires de mai. Love is a game, poetry is a game, life should become a game (it's the only hope for our political struggles) and 'the revolution itself is a game', as the most aware of the May revolutionaries said.

—Robbe-Grillet, Alain

   Hail Cricket! glorious, manly, British game! First of all Sports! be first alike in fame!

—Love,James pseudonym of  James Dance

It's more than a game. It's an institution.

—Hughes,Ted (Edward James)

The one passion of my life has been footballöthe most exhilarating game I know, and the strongest protest against selfishness, without sermonizing, that was ever put before a thoughtful people.

—Goodall,John

Please allow me to introduce myself I'm a man of wealth and taste. I've been around for a long, long year Stole many a man's soul and faith. And I was around when Jesus Christ Had his moments of doubt and pain, Made damn sure that Pilate Washed his hands and sealed his fate. Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name But what's puzzling you Is the nature of my game.

—Jagger, Mick and Richards, Keith

Never change a winning game: always change a losing one.

—Tilden, Bill (WilliamTatem II)

If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will.

—James,William

Here lies, bowl'd out by Death's unerring ball, A cricketer renowned, by name John Small; But though his name was small, yet great was his fame, For nobly did he play the'noble game'. His life was like his inningsölong and good; Full ninety summers had Death withstood, At length the ninetieth winter cameöwhen (Fate Not leaving him one solitary mate) This last of Hambledonians, old John Small, Gave up his bat and ballöhis leather, wax and all.

—Egan, Pierce

It is no game for the soft of sinewand the gentle of spirit. Thehigherand dirtiercroquet-playercanusetheguile of a cobra and the inhumanity of a boa constrictor.

—Woollcott, Alexander Humphreys

This wild swan of a world is no hunter's game. Better bullets than yours would miss the white breast, Better mirrors than yours would crack in the flame.

—Jeffers, (John) Robinson

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

—Nabokov,Vladimir

Poetry is not a career, but a mug's game.

—Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)

Clear Cymric voices carry well this Autumn night, Aneurin and Taliesin, cruel owls for whom it is never altogether dark before the rules made poetry a pedant's game.

—Bunting, Basil

I stand for the square deal†not merely for fair play under thepresent rules of thegame, but for having those rules changed, so as to work for a more substantial equality of opportunityand of reward for equally good service.

—Roosevelt,Theodore

Cricket is full of theorists who can ruin your game in no time.

—Botham, IanTerence

Science is a search for truthöit is not a game in which one tries to best his opponent, to do harm to others.

—Pauling, Linus Carl

Soccer is a man's game; not an outing for mamby- pambies.

—Charlton,Jack (John)

The Socratic method isnot a game at whichtwo can play.

—Beerbohm, Sir (Henry) Max(imilian)

Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours'march to dinneröand then to thinking! It is hard if I cannot start some game on these lone heaths.

—Hazlitt,William

The Soviet game is chess†ours is poker.We will have to play a creative mixture of both games.

—Shultz, George P(ratt)

I don't think I can be expected to take seriouslya game which takes less than three days to reach its conclusion.

—Stoppard, SirTom originally Tom Straussler

They talk a good game, but economists hardly know enough about business cycles to figure out where they come from, let alone where they're going.

—Becker, Gary Stanley

There's three things you can do in a baseball game^you can win, you can lose, or it can rain.

—Stengel, Casey (Charles Dillon)

There isplentyof timetowinthisgame, and tothrashthe Spaniards too.

—Drake, Sir Francis

   Truth is the cry of all, but the game of the few.

—Berkeley, George

But the past is just the same,öand War's a bloody game.

—Sassoon, Siegfried Louvain

But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings should not play at. Nations would do well To extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby minds Are gratified with mischief, and who spoil, Because men suffer it, their toy the world.

—Cowper,William

What a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be 'sorry'and admiration of each other's play crosses the net as frequently as the ball.

—Barrie, SirJ(ames) M(atthew)

When's the game itself going to begin? Marx

—Marx, Groucho originally Julius Henry Marx

Man is the hunter; woman is his game: The sleek and shining creatures of the chase, We hunt them for the beauty of their skins; They love us for it, and we ride them down.

—Tennyson