Famous quotes containing the words pot, limit and/or game:
“As if he were
a pot of dates
in a blind mans hand,
Mothers,
they pilfer my husband
and theyre jealous of me!
The cobras hood
has come out of its tail.”
—Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)
“No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.”
—Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (16361711)
“The chess-board is the world; the pieces are the phenomena of the universe; the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (18251895)
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