Quote by George Bernard Shaw

He hates chess. He says it is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something clever when they are only wasting their time.

He hates chess. He says it is a foolish expedient for making

Summary

This quote reflects someone's disdain for the game of chess, dismissing it as a useless pastime. The individual sees chess as a means for people to delude themselves into thinking they are engaging in something intellectually stimulating, when in reality, it is merely a way to squander one's time. The quote suggests that the person holds a negative opinion of chess, considering it to be a foolish and unproductive activity.

Topics

Play/games

By George Bernard Shaw

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

You have a career, and you start as a business person. And y

You have a career, and you start as a business person. And you work your way, you reach this peak, and you know the time's going to come when you go back down.

Miranda Lambert

Business

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceiv

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.

Charity

Follow your Dreams-They give pathway to the wonder of who yo

Follow your Dreams-They give pathway to the wonder of who you are...Debbie Burns

Best Change Apple Animals Child Care Book Bed Animal Bond Blossom Blossoms Children S Can Bear Bedtime Story Bunny Children Book

The most fundamental tragedy of my life is that the ones who

The most fundamental tragedy of my life is that the ones who I see do not existand the one who exists I do not see.

Life Tragedy Existence

I liked the premise of this material. I love the marriage re

I liked the premise of this material. I love the marriage relationship. They kind of keep each other honest, and they enjoy each other's sense of humor. Kind of a sexy but boring relationship.

Patricia Arquette

Humor

Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have wa

Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.

American Indian Proverb

Judgment Judging

There's a punk-rock attitude, clearly, to 'Hated.' There's e

There's a punk-rock attitude, clearly, to 'Hated.' There's even a punk-rock attitude to 'The Hangover,' I think. We start the movie with a Glenn Danzig song.

Attitude

HELP = H(umor), E-go, edging God out, L-istening, P-urpose

HELP = H(umor), E-go, edging God out, L-istening, P-urpose

Help

This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dre

This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Fear Trust Respect

There are two kinds of men who never amount to much -- those

There are two kinds of men who never amount to much -- those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else.

Cyrus H. K Curtis

Humanity

The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to

The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.

Alfred E. Smith

Sunshine

They can gas me, but I am famous. I have achieved in one day

They can gas me, but I am famous. I have achieved in one day what it took Robert Kennedy all his life to do.

Famous