Bridge Quotes If Famous Persons Had Played Bridge.
#61
Posted 2005-October-04, 23:45
Scarlett O'Hara
#62
Posted 2005-October-04, 23:47
Fields: "Not the way I play it, no...."
W.C. Fields
#63
Posted 2005-October-09, 17:09
"Don' theeenk. Feeeel!"
There are several quotes from Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" that not surprisingly translate almost literally to the Bridge sphere. Here is a selection:
The Art is a flexible System
Much computation brings triumph.
Little computation brings defeat.
How much more so with no computation at all!
Those who have made no errors
have arranged for certain triumph:
A triumph over those who are already defeated.
Directing is like a tautly drawn crossbow
Analysis gives rise to balancing.
Balance gives rise to triumph ...
Such is Positioning.
Those skilled in conflict
Who Direct through others,
Seem to travel like a rounded boulder
Down a thousand-meter mountain.
Such is Directing.
When either we or others must seize the advantage,
The Situation is Competitive.
If we know the opponent is able to confront
And know our team is able to confront,
But do not know Situational Positioning,
We are unable to challenge
Because we are but halfway to triumph.
(OK that last one would have been better if for "Situational Positioning" you read "Positional Situations")
Psyche (pron. sahy-kee): The human soul, spirit or mind (derived, personification thereof, beloved of Eros, Greek myth).
Masterminding (pron. m





"Gentlemen, when the barrage lifts." 9th battalion, King's own Yorkshire light infantry,
2000 years earlier: "morituri te salutant"
"I will be with you, whatever". Blair to Bush, precursor to invasion of Iraq
#64
Posted 2005-October-10, 05:29
being asked the meaning of his partner's bid.
#65
Posted 2005-October-10, 10:32
The answer, my friend, is Blowin' in the Wind. The answer is Blowin' in the Wind"
#66
Posted 2005-October-12, 02:05
-Mr Miyagi, on tabling dummy
Psyche (pron. sahy-kee): The human soul, spirit or mind (derived, personification thereof, beloved of Eros, Greek myth).
Masterminding (pron. m





"Gentlemen, when the barrage lifts." 9th battalion, King's own Yorkshire light infantry,
2000 years earlier: "morituri te salutant"
"I will be with you, whatever". Blair to Bush, precursor to invasion of Iraq
#67
Posted 2005-October-12, 23:51
Humphrey Bogart on learning and playing Relay Precision
#68
Posted 2005-October-13, 10:29
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Bridge is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Bridge. I can assure you mine are still greater.
No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of HCP's and losers so important a phenomenon as hand evaluation.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no director is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment.
- hrothgar
#69
Posted 2005-October-13, 10:41
I think that steroids ought to be banned from bridge.
We do know that he has no sense of civility about who he squeezes.
(first one originally about baseball, second originally about Osama Bin Laden)
And we are fighting our opponents, and we will continue to fight our opponents, and we will not stop until we defeat our opponents.
Will stop here because I don't want to offend anyone. (Well, perhaps I do, but this is a bridge forum.)
- hrothgar
#70
Posted 2005-October-13, 13:06
#71
Posted 2005-October-13, 13:24
#72
Posted 2005-October-13, 13:34
#73
Posted 2005-October-13, 13:35
#74
Posted 2005-October-13, 13:38
London Bridge is falling down, my fair lady-- maybe mother goose
John Nelson.
#75
Posted 2005-October-13, 13:49
#76
Posted 2005-October-13, 16:54
#77
Posted 2005-October-13, 17:01
#78
Posted 2005-October-13, 17:17
-Judge Dredd, cca 1980, on discovering the wisdom of preemption
Psyche (pron. sahy-kee): The human soul, spirit or mind (derived, personification thereof, beloved of Eros, Greek myth).
Masterminding (pron. m





"Gentlemen, when the barrage lifts." 9th battalion, King's own Yorkshire light infantry,
2000 years earlier: "morituri te salutant"
"I will be with you, whatever". Blair to Bush, precursor to invasion of Iraq
#79
Posted 2005-October-13, 23:47
Elmer Fudd
#80
Posted 2005-October-13, 23:53
"Who's sitting North?"
"That's right."
"What's right?"
"No, What is South."
"What?"
"Right."
"But who's North."
"I told you. Who."
"That's what I'm asking you! Who is North?!"
"Exactly"
Bud Abbot and Lou Costello