Subject: Activities » Games

My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

[Poker] as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find outside an advertising agency.

(1888 – 1959) detective novelist & screenwriter

I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.

(1950 – ) writer & humorist

Have ever played Strip Trivial Pursuit? … what that is… is you, sitting on a chair with no clothes on, feeling fat, watching someone fully clothed beat you at Trivial Pursuit.

(1981 – ) English writer, stand-up comedian & actress

Snake eyes is a gambling term… and an animal term, too.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian

Scrabble was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia.

(1962 – ) English stand-up comedian & actor

The worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades.

(1973 – ) American comedian

Bridge is the only game that bruises more shins than hockey.

Please don’t ask me what the score is, I’m not even sure what the game is.

(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist

Look around the table; if you don’t see a sucker, get up, because you’re the sucker.

How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?

(1950 – ) comedian & television host

Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author

Here we have a game that combines the charm of a Pentagon briefing with the excitement of double-entry bookkeeping.

internet columnist

The boomarang is Australia’s chief export (and then import.)

(1973 – ) American comedian

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Hot Potato is a very different game when the people playing are starving.

(1973 – ) American comedian

Bridge is a friendly game invented by two married couples who disliked each other.

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

Life’s too short for chess.

(1834 - 1884) - American born British dramatist & actor

Life is a game, the object of which is to discover the object of the game.

My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.

(1956 – ) American comedian