“Winning needs no explanation, losing has no alibi.” ― Greg Baum.“A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.” ― Robert Hughes
“Chess is a fairy tale of 1,001 blunders.” ― Savielly Tartakower
“Pawns are the soul of the game.” ― François-André Danican Philidor
“The king pawn and the queen pawn are the only ones to be moved in the early part of the game.” ― Wilhelm Steinitz
“I believe that it is best to know a 'dubious' opening really well, rather than a 'good' opening only slightly.” ― Simon Williams
“There is no such thing as an absolutely freeing move. A freeing move in a position in which development has not been carried far always proves illusory, and vice versa, a move which does not come at all in the category of freeing moves can, given a surplus of tempi to our credit, lead to a very free game.”
― Aron Nimzowitsch
“You may knock your opponent down with the chessboard, but that does not prove you the better player.” ― English Proverb
'Attack is the best form of defence
“The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.” — Criss Jami
“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.” ― Buddha
“We hold these truths to be self-evident: all men and women are created, by the, you know the, you know the thing.” ― Joe Biden, botching USA Declaration of Independence quote.
“I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.” ― Alexander Alekhine
“We cannot resist the fascination of sacrifice, since a passion for sacrifices is part of a chessplayer's nature.” ― Rudolf Spielmann
“I’ve come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.” ― Marcel Duchamp
“if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther
“To play for a draw, at any rate with white, is to some degree a crime against chess.” ― Mikhail Tal
“Boring? Who's boring? I am Fredthebear. My mind is always active, busy. If you are bored here, then follow another bear around.”
“When you see a good move – WAIT! – look for a better one.” ― Emanuel Lasker
The Portuguese chess player and author Pedro Damiano (1480–1544) first wrote this in his book "Questo libro e da imparare giocare a scachi et de li partiti" published in Rome, Italy, in 1512.
“It's a short trip from the penthouse to the outhouse.” ― Paul Dietzel
“Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.” ― Francis Bacon
“Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.” ― M. Scott Peck
“The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.”
― St. Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
“In chess, as in life, a man is his own most dangerous opponent.”
— Vasily Smyslov (1921-2010), 7th World Chess Champion
“Capablanca didn't make separate moves - he was creating a chess picture. Nobody could compare with him in this.” ― Mikhail Botvinnik
“Whether this advantage is theoretically sufficient to win or not does not worry Capablanca. He simply wins the ending. That is why he is Capablanca!”
― Max Euwe
“He (Capablanca) makes the game look easy. Art lies in the concealment of art.” ― Philip W. Sergeant
“For a period of ten years--between 1946 and 1956--Reshevsky was probably the best chessplayer in the world. I feel sure that had he played a match with Botvinnik during that time he would have won and been World Champion.”
― Bobby Fischer
“The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance: some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.”
― Gregory Maguire, A Lion Among Men
“Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.” ― Douglas MacArthur
“Old habits die hard, especially for soldiers.”
― Jocelyn Murray, The Roman General: A Novel
Matthew 17:20
Our faith can move mountains.
Other people’s wisdom prevents the king from being called a fool. ~ Nigerian Proverb
Knowledge without wisdom is like water in the sand. ~ Guinean Proverb
Ingratitude is sooner or later fatal to its author. ~ Twi Proverb
The laughter of a child lights up the house. ~ Swahili proverb
* One of Pandolfini's Best: Game Collection: Solitaire Chess by Bruce Pandolfini
* Two Great Attackers: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/che...
* 10 Crazy Gambits: https://www.chess.com/blog/yola6655...
* Lekhika Dhariyal Chess Ops: https://www.zupee.com/blog/category...
* Alekhine getz blitzed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8H...
* Capablanca's Double Attack — having the initiative is important: https://lichess.org/study/tzrisL1R
* Classic games by great players: Game Collection: Guinness Book - Chess Grandmasters (Hartston)
* Common Phrases and Terms: https://www.ragchess.com/chess-basi...
* 100+ Scandinavian Miniatures: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches...
* Collection assembled by Fredthebear.
* Miniatures: Game Collection: 200 Miniature Games of Chess - Du Mont (III)
* 610_Back rank mating tactics: Game Collection: 610_Back rank mating tactics
* Fork OVerload (Remove the Defender): Game Collection: FORK-OVERLOAD OR HOOK-AND-LADDER TRICK
* Glossary: https://www.peoriachess.com/Glossar...
* Impact of Genius: 500 years of Grandmaster Chess: Game Collection: Impact of Genius : 500 years of Grandmaster Ches
* Chess Prehistory Compiled by Joe Stanley: Game Collection: Chess Prehistory
* Organized Steinitz collection:
Game Collection: Steinitz Gambits
* Best (Old) Games of All Time: Game Collection: Best Games of All Time
* 'Great Brilliancy Prize Games of the Chess Masters' by Fred Reinfeld: Game Collection: 0
* bengalcat47's favorite games of famous masters: Game Collection: bengalcat47's favorite games
* Mil y Una Partidas 1914-1931: Game Collection: Mil y Una Partidas 1914-1931
* Fire Baptisms Compiled by Nasruddin Hodja: Game Collection: Fire Baptisms
* maxruen's favorite games III: Game Collection: maxruen's favorite games III
* some famous brilliancies: Game Collection: brilliacies
* Brilliant games Compiled by madhatter5: Game Collection: Brilliant games
* The Fireside Book of Chess by Irving Chernev and Fred Reinfeld: Game Collection: Fireside Book of Chess
* 'Chess Praxis' by Aron Nimzowitsch: Game Collection: Chess Praxis (Nimzowitsch)
* '500 Master Games of Chess' by Savielly Tartakower and Julius Du Mont: Game Collection: 500 Master Games of Chess
* Great Combinations compiled by wwall: Game Collection: Combinations
* Middlegame Combinations by Peter Romanovsky: Game Collection: Middlegame Combinations by Peter Romanovsky
* Exchange sacs – 1 Compiled by obrit: Game Collection: Exchange sacs - 1
* Secrets of the Russian Chess Masters Volume II: Game Collection: Secrets of the Russian Chess Masters Volume II
* Ne5 Holler of a Tree in Fredthebear Country: Game Collection: 5 Ne5 Holler of a Tree in Fredthebear Country
* 'The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games' by Graham Burgess, John Nunn and John Emms. New expanded edition-now with 125 games. Game Collection: Mammoth Book-Greatest Games (Nunn/Burgess/Emms)
* Best of the British Compiled by Timothy Glenn Forney: Game Collection: Best of the British
* The Best Chess Games (part 2): Game Collection: The Best Chess Games (part 2)
* GK: Game Collection: Kasparov - The Sicilian Sheveningen
* Annotated Games: Game Collection: Annotated Games
* sapientdust's favorite games: Game Collection: sapientdust's favorite games
* shakman's favorite games – 2: Game Collection: shakman's favorite games - 2
* Reti Opening Compiled by KingG: Game Collection: Reti Opening
* Veliki majstori saha 16 RETI (Slavko Petrovic): Game Collection: Veliki majstori saha 16 RETI (Petrovic)
* Richard Réti's Best Games by Golombek: Game Collection: Richard Réti's Best Games by Golombek
* ray keene's favorite games: Game Collection: ray keene's favorite games
* Tartakower's Defense: https://www.chess.com/blog/MatBobul...
* (Variety Pack) compiled by Nova: Game Collection: KID games
* JonathanJ's favorite games 4: Game Collection: JonathanJ's favorite games 4
* jorundte's favorite games: Game Collection: jorundte's favorite games
* elmubarak: my fav games: Game Collection: elmubarak: my fav games
* assorted Good games Compiled by rbaglini: Game Collection: assorted Good games
* Golden Treasury of Chess (Wellmuth/Horowitz):
Game Collection: Golden Treasury of Chess (Wellmuth/Horowitz)
* LAST COLLECTION Compiled by Jaredfchess: Game Collection: LAST COLLECTION
* Mr. Harvey's Puzzle Challenge: https://wtharvey.com/
WTHarvey:
There once was a website named WTHarvey,
Where chess puzzles did daily delay,
The brain-teasers so tough,
They made us all huff and puff,
But solving them brought us great satisfaction today.
There once was a website named WTHarvey
Where chess puzzles were quite aplenty
With knight and rook and pawn
You'll sharpen your brain with a yawn
And become a master of chess entry
There once was a site for chess fun,
Wtharvey.com was the chosen one,
With puzzles galore,
It'll keep you in store,
For hours of brain-teasing, none done.
There once was a website named wtharvey,
Where chess puzzles were posted daily,
You'd solve them with glee,
And in victory,
You'd feel like a true chess prodigy!
“Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.” ― Alexander Alekhine
“Among a great many other things that chess teaches you is to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good. It trains you to think before grabbing and to think just as objectively when you’re in trouble.”
― Stanley Kubrick
“Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules, take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.” ― Garry Kasparov
“Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.” ― Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“To avoid losing a piece, many a person has lost the game.”
― Savielly Tartakower
“Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.”
― Winston S. Churchill
“Even though chess isn't the toughest thing that computers will tackle for centuries, it stood as a handy symbol for human intelligence. No matter what human-like feat computers perform in the future, the Deep Blue match demands an indelible dot on all timelines of AI progress.” ― Steven Levy
Song of the Storm-Swept Plain
William D. Hodjkiss
The wind shrills forth
From the white cold North
Where the gates of the Storm-god are;
And ragged clouds,
Like mantling shrouds,
Engulf the last, dim star.
Through naked trees,
In low coulees,
The night-voice moans and sighs;
And sings of deep,
Warm cradled sleep,
With wind-crooned lullabies.
He stands alone
Where the storm’s weird tone
In mocking swells;
And the snow-sharp breath
Of cruel Death
The tales of its coming tells.
The frightened plaint
Of his sheep sound faint
Then the choking wall of white—
Then is heard no more,
In the deep-toned roar,
Of the blinding, pathless night.
No light nor guide,
Save a mighty tide
Of mad fear drives him on;
‘Till his cold-numbed form
Grows strangely warm;
And the strength of his limbs is gone.
Through the storm and night
A strange, soft light
O’er the sleeping shepherd gleams;
And he hears the word
Of the Shepherd Lord
Called out from the bourne of dreams.
Come, leave the strife
Of your weary life;
Come unto Me and rest
From the night and cold,
To the sheltered fold,
By the hand of love caressed.
The storm shrieks on,
But its work is done—
A soul to its God has fled;
And the wild refrain
Of the wind-swept plain,
Sings requiem for the dead.
“No one has ever won a game of chess by taking only forward moves (What about Scholar's Mate?). Sometimes you have to move backwards in order to be able to take better steps forward. That is life.” — Anonymous
Drive sober or get pulled over.
“For surely of all the drugs in the world, chess must be the most permanently pleasurable.” — Assiac
“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”
― Thomas Jefferson, chess player
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
The Lion and the Rat
To show to all your kindness, it behoves:
There's none so small but you his aid may need.
I quote two fables for this weighty creed,
Which either of them fully proves.
From underneath the sward
A rat, quite off his guard,
Popped out between a lion's paws.
The beast of royal bearing
Showed what a lion was
The creature's life by sparing –
A kindness well repaid;
For, little as you would have thought
His majesty would ever need his aid,
It proved full soon
A precious boon.
Forth issuing from his forest glen,
T" explore the haunts of men,
In lion net his majesty was caught,
From which his strength and rage
Served not to disengage.
The rat ran up, with grateful glee,
Gnawed off a rope, and set him free.
By time and toil we sever
What strength and rage could never
According to Chessmetrics, Lasker was #1 for longer than anyone else in history: 292 different months between June 1890 and December 1926. That's a timespan of 36 1/2 years, in which Lasker was #1 for a total of 24 years and 4 months. Lasker was 55 years old when he won New York 1924.
“The great thing about chess is it's a game for oneself. You don't work on what you can't control, you just work on yourself. And I think if more people did that, we'd all be a lot better off.” — Daniel Naroditsky
<Writing from his experience of the devastation of World War I, Edwardian poet Alfred Noyes' well-known "On the Western Front" speaks from the perspective of soldiers buried in graves marked by simple crosses, asking that their deaths not be in vain. Praise of the dead was not what the dead needed, but peace made by the living. An excerpt:We, who lie here, have nothing more to pray.
To all your praises we are deaf and blind.
We may not ever know if you betray
Our hope, to make earth better for mankind.>
“Rooks need each other in the middlegame. This is why one should keep their rooks connected until the opposing queen is off the board. She'll snare 'em (usually from a centralized square on an open diagonal or perhaps a poisoned pawn approach of the unprotected b2/b7 and g2/g7 square next to the occupied corner) if the two rooks aren't protecting each other.” ― Fredthebear
“In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted; if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.” ― Tom Seaver
This is ten percent luck, twenty percent skill
Fifteen percent concentrated power of will
Five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain
And a hundred percent reason to remember the name!
― Fort Minor
Deuteronomy 6:6-9: "These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates."
Isaiah 66:24
24 "And they will go out and look on the dead bodies of those who rebelled against me; the worms that eat them will not die, the fire that burns them will not be quenched, and they will be loathsome to all mankind."
Matthew 19:26
But Jesus looked at them and said, 'With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.'
'Ashes to ashes dust to dust
chess writer and poet Henry Thomas Bland.
Another example of his way with words is the start of ‘Internal Fires’, a poem published on page 57 of the March 1930 American Chess Bulletin:
I used to play chess with the dearest old chap,
Whom naught could upset whatever might hap.
He’d oft lose a game he might well have won
But made no excuse for what he had done.
If a piece he o’erlooked and got it snapped up
He took it quite calmly and ne’er ‘cut up rough’.
“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” ― William Faulkner
“Sometimes in life, and in chess, you must take one step back to take two steps forward.” — IM Levy Rozman, GothamChess
So much, much, much better to be an incurable optimist than deceitful and untrustworthy.
Old Russian Proverb: "Scythe over a stone." (Нашла коса на камень.) The force came over a stronger force.
“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”
― Leonardo da Vinci
The Children's Hour
The Children's Hour was first published in 1860 in The Atlantic Monthly. The 3 children in the poem are Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's own daughters.
In the early 1900's this poem was frequently taught in schools to young children. It is about the father child relationship and the enduring love of a father for his children.
Between the dark and the daylight,
When the night is beginning to lower,
Comes a pause in the day's occupations,
That is known as the Children's Hour.
I hear in the chamber above me
The patter of little feet,
The sound of a door that is opened,
And voices soft and sweet.
From my study I see in the lamplight,
Descending the broad hall stair,
Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra,
And Edith with golden hair.
A whisper, and then a silence:
Yet I know by their merry eyes
They are plotting and planning together
To take me by surprise.
A sudden rush from the stairway,
A sudden raid from the hall!
By three doors left unguarded
They enter my castle wall!
They climb up into my turret
O'er the arms and back of my chair;
If I try to escape, they surround me;
They seem to be everywhere.
They almost devour me with kisses,
Their arms about me entwine,
Till I think of the Bishop of Bingen
In his Mouse-Tower on the Rhine!
Do you think, O blue-eyed banditti,
Because you have scaled the wall,
Such an old mustache as I am
Is not a match for you all!
I have you fast in my fortress,
And will not let you depart,
But put you down into the dungeon
In the round-tower of my heart.
And there will I keep you forever,
Yes, forever and a day,
Till the walls shall crumble to ruin,
And moulder in dust away!
“When you’re lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play Chess. This will raise your spirits and be your counselor in war.” ― Aristotle
“The habit of holding a Man in the hand, and moving it first to one square and then to another, in order to engage the assistance of the eye in deciding where it shall actually be placed, is not only annoying to the adversary but a practical infraction of the touch-and-move principle.” ― Howard Staunton
“A bad plan is better than none at all.” ― Frank Marshall
<Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day"
Bombardment of Fort Fisher, near Wilmington, New York, 1865The poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, in the middle of the Civil War, wrote this poem which has more recently been adapted as a modern Christmas classic. Longfellow wrote this on Christmas Day in 1863, after his son had enlisted in the Union's cause and had returned home, seriously wounded. The verses which he included and are still generally included, speak of the despair of hearing the promise of "peace on earth, goodwill to men" when the evidence of the world is clearly that war still exists.
And in despair I bowed my head;
"There is no peace on earth," I said;
"For hate is strong,
And mocks the song
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!"
Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
"God is not dead, nor doth He sleep;
The Wrong shall fail,
The Right prevail,
With peace on earth, good-will to men."
The original also included several verses referring specifically to the Civil War. Before that cry of despair and answering cry of hope, and after verses describing the long years of hearing of "peace on earth, goodwill to men" (a phrase from the Jesus birth narratives in the Christian scriptures), Longfellow's poem includes, describing the black cannons of the war:
Then from each black, accursed mouth
The cannon thundered in the South,
And with the sound
The carols drowned
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
It was as if an earthquake rent
The hearth-stones of a continent,
And made forlorn
The households born
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!>
* Bowman's Beginner's Guide:
http://chess.jliptrap.us/BowmanBegi...
Not perfect but dedicated, passionate.
* Capablanca's Double Attack — having the initiative is important: https://lichess.org/study/tzrisL1R
* Red States: https://www.redhotpawn.com/
*At some time or other tournament player learns a few opening lines, some tactical ideas, the most basic mating patterns, and a few elementary endgames. As he gets better and more experienced, he significantly adds to this knowledge. However, the one thing that just everybody has problem is planning. From Z to class E (under 1200) D to Master, I get blank stares when asking what plan they had in mind in a particular position. Usually the choice of a plan (if they had any plan at all) is based on emotional rather than chess-specific considerations. By emotional, I mean that the typical player does what he feels like doing rather than the board "telling him what to do. This is somewhat cryptic sentence leads us to the following extremely important concept: if you want to be successful, you have to base your moves and plans on the specific imbalance-oriented criteria that exist in that given position, not your mood, taste and/or feared. Literally every non-master's games are filled with examples of "imbalance avoidance". Beginners, of course, simply don't know what imbalances are. Most experienced players have heard of the term and perhaps even tried to make use of them from time to time, however once the rush of battle takes over, isolated moves and raw aggression (or terror, if you find yourself defending) push any and all thoughts of imbalances out the door. In this case, chess becomes empty move-by-move, threat-by-threat (either making them or responding to them) affair. What is this mysterious allusion of the chessboard's desires (i.e., doing what the chess board wants you to do)? What is this "imbalance-oriented criteria?
― How To Reassess Your Chess by Jeremy Silman
Nov-14-19 Ratt Boy: <TheAlchemist>: If you're going to criticize "pronounciation", you might want to spell (and pronounce) "pronunciation" correctly. Just a suggestion.
TheAlchemist: Yes, sorry, I was an idiot as always. Hopefully I'll remember to shut up next time.
keypusher: <TheAlchemist: Yes, sorry, I was an idiot as always. Hopefully I'll remember to shut up next time.>
As with nudism, it's always the wrong people who self-criticize.
* Bowman's Beginner's Guide:
http://chess.jliptrap.us/BowmanBegi...
Not perfect but dedicated, passionate.
* Black Defends: Game Collection: Opening repertoire black
* Capablanca's Double Attack — having the initiative is important: https://lichess.org/study/tzrisL1R
* Masterful: Game Collection: FRENCH DEFENSE MASTERPIECES
* C53s: Game Collection: rajat21's italian game
* RL Minis: Game Collection: Ruy Lopez Miniatures
* Del's: Game Collection: Del's hidden gems
* 21st Century: Game Collection: 0
* GK: Game Collection: Kasparov - The Sicilian Sheveningen
* Can you whip Taimanov's Sicilian? http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches...
* Bg2 vs Sicilian: Game Collection: Grand Prix Attack without early Bc4
* Red States: https://www.redhotpawn.com/
* Revived: http://gbcmartinsburg.com/
* Riddle-e-dee: https://chessimprover.com/chess-rid...
* Fred Reinfeld could've written this if only they had cell phones back when: https://socialself.com/blog/how-to-...
* Sicilian SMG: Game Collection: SMITH-MORRA GAMBIT
Кто не рискует, тот не пьет шампанского
Pronunciation: KTOH ni risKUyet, tot ni pyot shamPANSkava)
Translation: He who doesn’t take risks doesn’t drink champagne
Meaning: Fortune favours the brave
"Tal has a terrifying style. Soon even grandmasters will know of this."
- Vladimir Saigin (after losing to 17-year-old Tal in a qualifying match for the master title)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5S...
“I like to grasp the initiative and not give my opponent peace of mind.”
— Mikhail Tal
“Believe in yourself. Have faith in your abilities. Without humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy.”
― Norman Vincent Peale
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.” ― Benjamin Franklin
“I've never met a checkers player I didn't like; they're all even-tempered. Chess players are egotistical. They think they're intellectuals and that everyone else is beneath them.” ― Don Lafferty, draughts grandmaster
1.Nf3 is the third most popular of the twenty legal opening moves White has, behind only 1.e4 and 1.d4.
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A Dialogue conteinyng the nomber in effect of all the Proverbes in the Englishe tongue, 1562:
Some hear and see him whom he heareth nor seeth not
But fields have eyes and woods have ears, ye wot
And also on my maids he is ever tooting.
Can ye judge a man, (quoth I), by his looking?
What, a cat may look on a king, ye know!
My cat's leering look, (quoth she), at first show,
Showeth me that my cat goeth a caterwauling;
And specially by his manner of drawing
To Madge, my fair maid.
'A bad penny always turns up'
'A fool and his money are soon parted'
'A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step'
'A leopard cannot change its spots'
'A man is known by his friends'
'A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client'
'A miss is as good as a mile'
'A new broom sweeps clean'
'A nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse'
'A penny saved is a penny earned'
'A person is known by the company he keeps'
'A picture paints a thousand words'
'A place for everything and everything in its place'
'A poor workman always blames his tools'
'A problem shared is a problem halved'
'A prophet is not recognized in his own land'
'A rising tide lifts all boats'
'A rolling stone gathers no moss'
'A soft answer turneth away wrath'
'A stitch in time saves nine'
'Don't keep a dog and bark yourself'
'Don't cast your pearls before swine'
'Don't change horses in midstream'
'Don't count your chickens before they are hatched'
'Don't let the cat out of the bag'
'Don't look a gift horse in the mouth'
'Don't put the cart before the horse'
'Don't shut the stable door after the horse has bolted'
'Don't throw good money after bad'
'Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater'
"What goes around, comes around."
"You can't hold with the hare and run with the hounds."
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'A thing of beauty is a joy forever
'There's a time and a place for everything
'A trouble shared is a trouble halved
'A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men
'A watched pot never boils
'A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke
'A woman's place is in the home
'A woman's work is never done
'A word to the wise is enough
'Absence makes the heart grow fonder
'Absolute power corrupts absolutely
'Accidents will happen (in the best-regulated families).
'Actions speak louder than words
'Adversity makes strange bedfellows
'After a storm comes a calm
'It ain't over till the fat lady sings
'All good things come to he who waits
'All good things must come to an end
'All is grist that comes to the mill
'All publicity is good publicity
'All roads lead to Rome
'All that glitters is not gold
'All the world loves a lover
'All things come to those that wait
'All things must pass
'All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
'All you need is love
'All's fair in love and war
'All's for the best in the best of all possible worlds
'All's well that ends well
'A miss is as good as a mile
'An apple a day keeps the doctor away
'An army marches on its stomach
'An Englishman's home is his castle
'There's an exception to every rule
'There's always more fish in the sea
'An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
'It's an ill wind that blows no one any good
'An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure
'Another day, another dollar
'Any port in a storm
'Appearances can be deceptive
'An apple a day keeps the doctor away
'The apple never falls far from the tree
'April is the cruelest month
'April showers bring forth May flowers
'An army marches on its stomach
'As thick as thieves
'As you make your bed, so you must lie upon it
'As you sow so shall you reap
'Ashes to ashes dust to dust
'Ask a silly question and you'll get a silly answer
'Ask no questions and hear no lies
'Attack is the best form of defence
'Bad money drives out good
'Bad news travels fast
'A bad penny always turns up
'A barking dog never bites
'Be careful what you wish for
'Beat swords into ploughshares
'Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
'Beauty is only skin deep
'Beggars should not be choosers
'Behind every great man there's a great woman
'The best defence is a good offence
'The best is the enemy of the good
'The best-laid schemes of mice and men gang aft agley
'The best things in life are free
'Better late than never
'Better safe than sorry
'Better the Devil you know than the Devil you don't
'It's best to be on the safe side
'It's better to give than to receive
'It's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all
'It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness
'Better to remain silent and be thought a fool that to speak and remove all doubt
'It's better to travel hopefully than to arrive
'Between two stools one falls to the ground
'Beware of Greeks bearing gifts
'Beware the Ides of March
'Big fish eat little fish
'Big fleas have little fleas upon their back to bite 'em
'The bigger they are, the harder they fall
'A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
'Birds of a feather flock together
'Blessed are the peacemakers
'Blood is thicker than water
'Blue are the hills that are far away
'The bottom line is the bottom line
'The boy is father to the man
'Boys will be boys
'Bread always falls buttered side down
'Brevity is the soul of wit
'Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door
'Business before pleasure
'Caesar's wife must be above suspicion
'Carpe diem (Pluck the day; Seize the day)
'A cat may look at a king
'A chain is only as strong as its weakest link
'A change is as good as a rest
'Charity begins at home
'Charity covers a multitude of sins
'Cheaters never win and winners never cheat
'Cheats never prosper
'The child is father to the man
'Children and fools tell the truth
'Children should be seen and not heard
'Christmas comes but once a year
'Cleanliness is next to godliness
'Clothes maketh the man
'The cobbler always wears the worst shoes
'Cold hands, warm heart
'Comparisons are odious
'Count your blessings
'The course of true love never did run smooth
'Cowards may die many times before their death
'Crime doesn't pay
'Curiosity killed the cat
'The customer is always right
'Cut your coat to suit your cloth
'The darkest hour is just before the dawn
'Dead men tell no tales
'The devil is in the details
'The devil looks after his own
'The devil makes work for idle hands to do
'The devil take the hindmost
'Different strokes for different folks
'Discretion is the better part of valour
'Distance lends enchantment to the view
'Do as I say, not as I do
'Do as you would be done by
'Do unto others as you would have them do to you
'A dog is a man's best friend
'Don't bite the hand that feeds you
'Don't burn your bridges behind you
'Don't cast your pearls before swine
'Don't change horses in midstream
'Don't count your chickens before they are hatched
'Don't cross the bridge till you come to it
'Don't cut off your nose to spite your face
'Don't get your knickers in a twist
'Don't keep a dog and bark yourself
'Don't leave your manners on the doorstep
'Don't let the bastards grind you down
'Don't let the cat out of the bag
'Don't let the grass grow under your feet
'Don't look a gift horse in the mouth
'Don't meet troubles half-way
'Don't mix business with pleasure
'Don't put all your eggs in one basket
'Don't put the cart before the horse
'Don't put new wine into old bottles
'Don't rock the boat
'Don't shoot the messenger
'Don't spoil the ship for a ha'porth of tar
'Don't shut the stable door after the horse has bolted
'Don't sweat the small stuff
'Don't throw pearls to swine
'Don't teach your Grandma to suck eggs
'Don't throw good money after bad
'Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater
'Don't trust anyone over thirty
'Don't try to run before you can walk
'Don't try to walk before you can crawl
'Don't upset the apple-cart
'Don't wash your dirty linen in public
'Doubt is the beginning not the end of wisdom
'A drowning man will clutch at a straw
'Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise
'Each to their own
'The early bird catches the worm
'East is east, and west is west
'East, west, home's best
'Easy come, easy go
'It's easy to be wise after the event
'Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die
'Empty vessels make the most noise
'The end justifies the means
'The English are a nation of shopkeepers
'An Englishman's home is his castle
'Enough is as good as a feast
'Enough is enough
'Even a worm will turn
'Every cloud has a silver lining
'Every dog has its day
'Every little bit helps
'Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost
'Every man has his price
'Every picture tells a story
'Every stick has two ends
'Everyone wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die
'Everything comes to him who waits
'The exception which proves the rule
'Failing to plan is planning to fail
'Faint heart never won fair lady
'Fair exchange is no robbery
'Faith will move mountains
'Familiarity breeds contempt
'The fat is in the fire
'Feed a cold and starve a fever
'The female of the species is more deadly than the male
'Fight fire with fire
'Fight the good fight
'Finders keepers, losers weepers
'Fine words butter no parsnips
'Fire is a good servant but a bad master
'First come, first served
'First impressions are the most lasting
'First things first
'Fish always stink from the head down
'Fish and guests smell after three days
'Flattery will get you nowhere
'A fool and his money are soon parted
'Fools rush in where angels fear to tread
'For everything there is a season
'For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the man was lost
'Forewarned is forearmed
'Forgive and forget
'Fortune favours the brave
'A friend in need is a friend indeed
'From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step
'Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains
'Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration
'Give a man a fish and you will feed him for a day...
'Give a dog a bad name and hang him
'Give a man enough rope and he will hang himself
'Give credit where credit is due
'Give the Devil his due
'Go the extra mile
'God helps those who help themselves
'A Golden key can open any door
'A good beginning makes a good ending
'Good fences make good neighbours
'A good man is hard to find
'Good talk saves the food
'Good things come in small packages
'Good things come to those that wait
'The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence
'Great minds think alike
'Great oaks from little acorns grow
'Half a loaf is better than no bread
'Hand that rocks the cradle rules the world - The
'Handsome is as handsome does
'Hard cases make bad law
'Hard work never did anyone any harm
'Haste makes waste
'He that goes a-borrowing, goes a-sorrowing
'He who can does, he who cannot, teaches Link to proverb
'He who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day
'He who hesitates is lost
'He who laughs last laughs longest
'He who lives by the sword shall die by the sword
'He who pays the piper calls the tune
'He who sups with the devil should have a long spoon Link to proverb
'Hear all, see all, say nowt, tak' all, keep all, gie nowt, and if tha ever does owt for nowt do it for thysen
'Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned
'Hindsight is always twenty-twenty
'History repeats itself
'Hold with the hare and run with the hounds - You can't
'Home is where the heart is
'Honesty is the best policy
'Honey catches more flies than vinegar
'Honour among thieves - There's
'Hope springs eternal
'Horses for courses
'A house divided against itself cannot stand
'A house is not a home
'The Husband is always the last to know
'If anything can go wrong, it will
'If a job is worth doing it is worth doing well
'If at first you don't succeed try, try and try again
'If God had meant us to fly he'd have given us wings
'If ifs and ands were pots and pans there'd be no work for tinkers
'If it ain't broke, don't fix it
'If life deals you lemons, make lemonade
'If the cap fits, wear it
'If the mountain won't come to Mohammed, then Mohammed must go to the mountain
'If the shoe fits, wear it
'If wishes were horses, beggars would ride
'If you build it they will come
'If you can't be good, be careful
'If you can't beat em, join em
'If you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen
'If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas
'If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys
'If you want a thing done well, do it yourself
'Ignorance is bliss
'Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
'In for a penny, in for a pound
'In the kingdom of the blind the one eyed man is king
'In the midst of life we are in death
'Into every life a little rain must fall
'It ain't over till the fat lady sings
'It never rains but it pours
'It takes a thief to catch a thief
'It takes all sorts to make a world
'It takes one to know one
'It takes two to tango
'It's all grist to the mill
'It's an ill wind that blows no one any good
'It's best to be on the safe side
'It's better to give than to receive
'It's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all
'It's better to light a candle than curse the darkness
'It's better to travel hopefully than to arrive
'It's easy to be wise after the event
'It's never too late
'It's no use crying over spilt milk
'It's no use shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted
'It's the early bird that catches the worm
'It's the empty can that makes the most noise
'It's the singer not the song
'It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease
'Jack of all trades, master of none
'Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today
'Journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step - A
'Judge not, that ye be not judged
'Keep your chin up
'Keep your friends close and your enemies closer
'Keep your powder dry
'Know which side your bread is buttered
The labourer is worthy of his hire
'Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone
'Laughter is the best medicine
'Least said, soonest mended
'A leopard cannot change its spots
'Less is more
'Let bygones be bygones
'Let not the sun go down on your wrath
'Let sleeping dogs lie
'Let the buyer beware
'Let the dead bury the dead
'Let the punishment fit the crime
'Let well alone
'Life begins at forty
'Life is just a bowl of cherries
'Life is what you make it
'Life's not all beer and skittles
'Lightning never strikes twice in the same place
'Like father, like son
'Little knowledge is a dangerous thing - A
'Little learning is a dangerous thing - A
'Little of what you fancy does you good - A
'Little pitchers have big ears
'Little strokes fell great oaks
'Little things please little minds
'Live and learn
'Live and let live
'Live for today for tomorrow never comes
'Longest journey starts with a single step - The
'Look before you leap
'Love of money is the root of all evil
'Love is blind
'Love makes the world go round
'Love thy neighbour as thyself
'Love will find a way
'Make hay while the sun shines
'Make haste slowly
'Man does not live by bread alone
'A man is known by his friends
'A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for his client
'Manners maketh man
'Many a good tune played on an old fiddle - There's
'Many a little makes a mickle
'Many a mickle makes a muckle
'Many a slip 'twixt cup and lip - There's
'Many a true word is spoken in jest
'Many are called but few are chosen
'Many hands make light work
'March comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb
'March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers
'Marriages are made in heaven
'Marry in haste, repent at leisure
'Might is right
'Mighty oaks from little acorns grow
'Misery loves company
'Miss is as good as a mile - A
'Moderation in all things
'Monday's child is fair of face
'Money doesn't grow on trees
'Money is the root of all evil
'Money isn't everything
'Money makes the world go round
'Money talks
'More haste, less speed
'The more the merrier
'The more things change, the more they stay the same
'Music has charms to soothe the savage breast
'Nature abhors a vacuum
'Necessity is the mother of invention
'Needs must when the devil drives
'Ne'er cast a clout till May be out
'Never give a sucker an even break
'Never go to bed on an argument
'Never judge a book by its cover
'Never let the sun go down on your anger
'Never look a gift horse in the mouth
'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today
'Never rains but it pours - It
'Never speak ill of the dead
'Never tell tales out of school
'It's never too late
'A new broom sweeps clean
'Nine tailors make a man
'There's no accounting for tastes
'There's no fool like an old fool
'No man can serve two masters
'No man is an island
'No names, no pack-drill
'No news is good news
'No one can make you feel inferior without your consent
'No pain, no gain
'There's o place like home
'No rest for the wicked
'There's no smoke without fire
'There's no such thing as a free lunch
'There's no such thing as bad publicity
'There's no time like the present
'It's no use crying over spilt milk
'A nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse
'There's none so blind as those who will not see
'There's none so deaf as those who will not hear
'Nothing new under the sun
'Nothing is certain but death and taxes
'Nothing succeeds like success
'Nothing ventured, nothing gained
'Oil and water don't mix
'Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away.
'Once a thief, always a thief
'Once bitten, twice shy
'One good turn deserves another
'One half of the world does not know how the other half lives
'One hand washes the other
'One man's meat is another man's poison
'One might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb
'One law for the rich and another law for the poor
'One swallow does not make a summer
'One volunteer is worth ten pressed men
'One year's seeding makes seven years weeding
'Only fools and horses work
'Opera ain't over till the fat lady sings - The
'Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door
'Opposites attract but they don't stay together
'An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure
'Out of sight, out of mind
'Out of the frying pan into the fire
'Paddle your own canoe
'Parsley seed goes nine times to the Devil
'Patience is a virtue
'Pearls of wisdom
'The pen is mightier than sword
'A penny saved is a penny earned
'Penny wise and pound foolish
'People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
'A person is known by the company he keeps
'Physician, heal thyself
'A picture paints a thousand words
'A place for everything and everything in its place
'A Poor workman always blames his tools
'Possession is nine points of the law
'Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely
'Practice makes perfect
'Practice what you preach
'Prevention is better than cure
'The price of liberty is eternal vigilance
'Pride comes before a fall
'Procrastination is the thief of time
'A problem shared is a problem halved
'The proof of the pudding is in the eating
'A prophet is not recognized in his own land
'Put the cart before the horse
'Put your best foot forward
'Put your shoulder to the wheel
'Quid pro quo
'Rain before seven, fine before eleven
'Red sky at night shepherd's delight; red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning
'Revenge is a dish best served cold
'A rising tide lifts all boats
'The road to hell is paved with good intentions
'Rob Peter to pay Paul
'A rolling stone gathers no moss
'Rome wasn't built in a day
'See a pin and pick it up, all the day you'll have good luck; see a pin and let it lie, bad luck you'll have all day
'See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil
'Seeing is believing
'Seek and you shall find
'Set a thief to catch a thief
'Share and share alike
'The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot
'Shrouds have no pockets
'Silence is golden
'Slow but sure
'A soft answer turneth away wrath
'Softly, softly, catchee monkey
'Spare the rod and spoil the child
'Speak as you find
'Speak softly and carry a big stick
'The squeaky wheel gets the grease
'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me
'Still waters run deep
A stitch in time saves nine
'Strike while the iron is hot
'Stupid is as stupid does
'Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan
'Take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves
'It takes a thief to catch a thief
'Takes all sorts to make a world
'Takes one to know one
'Talk is cheap
'Talk of the Devil, and he is bound to appear
'Tell the truth and shame the Devil
'That which does not kill us makes us stronger
'The age of miracles is past
'The apple never falls far from the tree
'The best defense is a good offence
'The best is the enemy of the good
'The best-laid schemes of mice and men gang aft agley
'The best things in life are free
'The bigger, the better
'The bigger they are, the harder they fall
'The bottom line is the bottom line
'The boy is father to the man
'The bread always falls buttered side down
'The child is father to the man
'The cobbler always wears the worst shoes
'The course of true love never did run smooth
'The customer is always right
'The darkest hour is just before the dawn
'The Devil has all the best tunes
'The Devil is in the details
'The Devil looks after his own
'The Devil makes work for idle hands to do
'The Devil take the hindmost
'The early bird catches the worm
'It's the empty can that makes the most noise
'The end justifies the means
'The English are a nation of shopkeepers
'The exception which proves the rule
'The fat is in the fire
'The female of the species is more deadly than the male
'The good die young
'The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence
'The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world
'The husband is always the last to know
'The labourer is worthy of his hire
'The law is an ass
'The leopard does not change his spots
'The longest journey starts with a single step
'The more the merrier
'The more things change, the more they stay the same
'The opera ain't over till the fat lady sings
'The pen is mightier than sword
'The price of liberty is eternal vigilance
'The proof of the pudding is in the eating
'The rich get richer and the poor get poorer
'The road to hell is paved with good intentions
'The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot
'The singer not the song - It's
'It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease
'The truth will win out
'The wages of sin is death
'The way to a man's heart is through his stomach
'The whole is greater than the sum of the parts
'There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream
'There are none so blind as those, that will not see
'There are two sides to every question
'There but for the grace of God, go I
'There's a sucker born every minute
'There's a time and a place for everything
'There's an exception to every rule
'There's always more fish in the sea
'There's honour among thieves
There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle
There's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip
There's more than one way to skin a cat
There's no accounting for tastes
There's no fool like an old fool
There's no place like home
There's no smoke without fire
There's no such thing as a free lunch
There's no such thing as bad publicity
There's no time like the present
There's none so blind as those who will not see
There's none so deaf as those who will not hear
There's nowt so queer as folk
There's one born every minute
There's one law for the rich and another law for the poor
There's safety in numbers
They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind
A thing of beauty is a joy forever
Third time lucky
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it
Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas
A trouble shared is a trouble halved
Thou shalt not kill
Time and tide wait for no man
Time flies
Time is a great healer
Time is money
Time will tell
'tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all
To err is human; to forgive divine
To every thing there is a season
To the victor go the spoils
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive
Tomorrow is another day
Tomorrow never comes
Too many cooks spoil the broth
Truth is stranger than fiction
Truth will out
Two blacks don't make a white
Two heads are better than one
Two is company, but three's a crowd
Two sides to every question - There are
Two wrongs don't make a right
Variety is the spice of life
Virtue is its own reward
Volunteer is worth twenty pressed men - A
Wages of sin is death - The
Walls have ears
Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs
Waste not want not
Watched pot never boils - A
Way to a man's heart is through his stomach - The
What can't be cured must be endured
What goes up must come down
What you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts
What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander
When in Rome, do as the Romans do
When the cat's away the mice will play
When the going gets tough, the tough get going
When the oak is before the ash, then you will only get a splash; when the ash is before the oak, then you may expect a soak
What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over
Where there's a will there's a way
Where there's muck there's brass
Wherever you wander, there's no place like home
While there's life there's hope
Whole is greater than the sum of the parts - The
Whom the Gods love die young
Why keep a dog and bark yourself?
Woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke - A
Woman's place is in the home - A
Woman's work is never done
Women and children first
Wonders will never cease
Word to the wise is enough - A
Work expands so as to fill the time available
Worrying never did anyone any good
You are never too old to learn
You are what you eat
You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar
You can choose your friends but you can't choose your family
You can have too much of a good thing
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink
You can't have your cake and eat it too
You can't get blood out of a stone
You can't get blood out of a turnip
You can't hold with the hare and run with the hounds
You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs
You can't make bricks without straw
You can't run with the hare and hunt with the hounds
You can't take it with you [when you die]
You can't teach an old dog new tricks
You can't judge a book by its cover
You can't win them all
You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar
You pays your money and you takes your choice
You reap what you sow
You win some, you lose some
Youth is wasted on the young
"Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves"- J.M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)
A man who spent his life delighting the masses with his words, perfectly understood that you reap what you sow, and that when we make other people happy, we often find happiness ourselves.
"Whatever you are doing in the game of life, give it all you've got."
— Norman Vincent Peale
"What you do today can improve all your tomorrows." — Ralph Marston
Psalm 96: 1-3
Sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth. Sing to the Lord, praise his name; proclaim his salvation day after day. Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous deeds among all peoples.
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<Oct-04-23 HeMateMe: I play 3/2 blitz occasionally on Lichess. I find it an excellent site, none of the delays/cancellations that ruined chess.com (for me).
Oct-04-23 Cassandro: Yes, lichess is by far the best site for online chess. And you never know, apparently you may even get to play against a living legend like the highly esteemed Leonard Barden there!>
FTB plays all about but has always been happy with FICS: https://www.freechess.org/
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Matthew 17:20
Our faith can move mountains.
'Finders keepers, losers weepers'
No, turn it over to Lost and Found.
Drive sober or get pulled over.
“For surely of all the drugs in the world, chess must be the most permanently pleasurable.” — Assiac
Once I asked Pillsbury whether he used any formula for castling. He said his rule was absolute and vital: castle because you will or because you must; but not because you can.’ — W.E. Napier (1881-1952)
Amanda Kay wrote:
Checkmate
You were my knight
Shining armor
Chess board was our home
Queen's fondness you garnered
A kiss sweeter than honeycomb
“My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring.”
― Prince William
Romans 8:38-39
For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
“It is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do: good Christians content themselves with His will revealed in His Word.” ― King James I
“Friend, you don't have to earn God's love or try harder. You're precious in His sight, covered by the priceless blood of Jesus, and indwelt by His Holy Spirit. Don't hide your heart or fear you're not good enough for Him to care for you. Accept His love, obey Him, and allow Him to keep you in His wonderful freedom.” — Charles F. Stanley
Psalm 107:1
Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; his love endures forever.
“A God you understood would be less than yourself.” ― Flannery O'Connor
Psalms 31:24 - Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD.
'A stitch in time saves nine'
"You can't hold with the hare and run with the hounds."
“I’ve come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.” ― Marcel Duchamp
“He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of knights.
'White to play and mate in two moves.'
Winston looked up at the portrait of Big Brother. White always mates, he thought with a sort of cloudy mysticism. Always, without exception, it is so arranged. In no chess problem since the beginning of the world has black ever won. Did it not symbolize the eternal, unvarying triumph of Good over Evil? The huge face gazed back at him, full of calm power. White always mates.”
― George Orwell, 1984
"When you come to a fork in the road, take it."
― Yogi Berra, 10-time World Series champion
Proverbs 3:5-6
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
“To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?” — Queen Elizabeth II
Psalm 107:1
Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; his love endures forever.
The Winds of Fate
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
One ship drives east and another drives west
With the selfsame winds that blow.
Tis the set of the sails
And not the gales
Which tells us the way to go.
Like the winds of the seas are the ways of fate,
As we voyage along through the life:
Tis the set of a soul
That decides its goal,
And not the calm or the strife.
“There are good ships, and there are wood ships, ships that sail the sea, but the best ships are friendships, and may they always be.”
– Anonymous
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
“My concern about my reputation is with the people who I respect and my family and my Lord. And I’m perfectly comfortable with my reputation with them, sir.” —John Durham
Psalm 107:1
Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; his love endures forever.
High Flight
BY JOHN GILLESPIE MAGEE JR.
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
of sun-split clouds,—and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of—wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air ....
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark nor ever eagle flew—
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
Riddle: What word is always pronounced wrong?
Answer: Wrong!
Jonathan Moya wrote:
The King’s Rumination
Befuddled with thought
the king sought the oracle.
“Count the sands,
calculate the seas,”
she said.
Of the king’s future,
she spoke nothing.
Henceforth he
contented only
in his nightmares.
Ecclesiastes 9:9: "Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life that he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun."
Proverbs 29:25
Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is kept safe.
Psalm 96: 1-3
Sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth. Sing to the Lord, praise his name; proclaim his salvation day after day. Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous deeds among all peoples.
Proverbs 3:5-6
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
JACK BE NIMBLE
Jack be nimble
Jack be quick
Jack jump over
The candlestick
.oo.
Kibitzing
