Famous quotes containing the words russian and/or billiards:
“I won the battle the wrong way when our worthy Russian generals were losing it the right way.”
—George Bernard Shaw (18561950)
“So wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness from the peculiar state of his disposition; and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand causes for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient to amuse him.”
—Blaise Pascal (16231662)