Subject: Activities » Games

Childish Games: Those at which your wife beats you.

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

(1888 – 1959) detective novelist & screenwriter

Life is like a game of poker: If you don’t put any in the pot, there won’t be any to take out.

(1894 – 1975) American comedian

Bridge: A game which gives women something to try to think about while they are talking.

Sucker: Is this a game of chance?

Fields: Not the way I play it, no.

(1880 – 1946) comedian, actor, juggler & writer

Sex is like a game of bridge… if you don't have a good partner, you need a good hand.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol

One night I was playing poker with tarot cards; I got a full house and four people died.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

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

internet columnist

I was playing chess with my friend and he said ‘Let’s make this more interesting’ … so we stopped playing chess.

(1980 – ) British comedian

Life is the only game in which the object of the game is to learn the rules.

(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist

Roulette: A wheel that seldom takes a turn for the bettor.

I’d like to play a video game where you help the people who were shot in all the other games; it’d be called ‘Really Busy Hospital.’

(1973 – ) American comedian

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

My roommate said to me, 'I'm gonna go shave and use the shower; does anyone need to use the bathroom?' … it's like some weird ass quiz where he reveals the answer first.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian

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.

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

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

If I ever saw an amputee getting hanged, I'd probably just start calling out letters.

(1973 – ) American comedian

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

(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist

Checkers taught me that a King is a man with another man on top of him, but life taught me that that's actually called a Queen.

(1973 – ) American comedian

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