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  • If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride, because it shows you trust in your own powers.

    Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.30, New World Library
  • Every gentleman plays billiards, but someone who plays billiards too well, is no gentleman.

  • Every cloud has a silver lining.

  • To play billiards well was a sign of an ill-spent youth

    Quoted in Duncan Life and Letters of Spencer, ch.20. Robert Louis Stevenson has also been credited with this observation.
  • Success is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.

  • To succeed, you must first believe you can.

  • Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

    Sports   Men   Play  
  • I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards.

  • As in the game of billiards, the balls are constantly producing effects from mere chance, which the most skillful player could neither execute nor foresee, but which, when they do happen, serve mainly to teach him how much he has still to learn; so it is in the most profound and complicated game of politics and diplomacy. In both cases, we can only regulate our play by what we have seen, rather than by what we have hoped; and by what we have experienced, rather than by what we have expected.

    Player   Games   Profound  
    Lacon: or many things in afew words (p. 345)
  • ..."And then we played Ping-Pong—” “Not pool? I always assumed he was a billiards man—I mean, it’s so handy the way he keeps a stick up his—

    Mean   Men   Ping Pong  
  • Sex at the age of 90 is like playing billiards with a rope

    Sex   Men   Age  
  • To play billiards well is the sign of a misspent youth.

  • A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It's more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together.

    Moving   Thinking   Games  
  • Fishing is not like billiards, in which it is possible to attain a disgusting perfection.

    Lakes   Sea   Fishing  
  • It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

    Sports   Golf   Gambling  
  • Along the way [Mozart] got married; fathered seven children (two of whom survived into adulthood); performed as a pianist; violinist; and conductor; maintained a successful teaching studio; wrote thousands of letters; traveled widely; attended the theater religiously; played cards, billiards, and bocce; and rode horseback for exercise. Not bad for someone portrayed as a giggling idiot in the movies.

  • Strictures, reproaches, and intemperate speeches from the Senator of Louisiana are really the wailings of an apostle of despair; he has lost control of himself, he is trying to play billiards with elliptical billiard balls and a spiral cue.

    Play   Despair   Trying  
  • I learned to approach racing like a game of billiards. If you bash the ball too hard, you get nowhere. As you handle the cue properly, you drive with more finesse.

    Games   Racing   Balls  
  • If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride, because it shows you trust in your own powers. Never bother about other people's opinions. Be humble and you will never be disturbed. Remember St. Aloysius, who said he would continue to play billiards even if he knew he was going to die. Do you play well? Sleep well? Eat well? These are duties. Nothing is small for God.

  • There was one planet off in the seventh dimension that got used as a ball in a game of intergalactic bar billiards. Got potted straight into a black hole.

    Games   Black   Bars  
    Douglas Adams (2009). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.154, Pan Macmillan
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