Backgammon Quotes

• The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Sports, Health, Athlete

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• All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Voting, Moral, Vote

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong, with moral questions; and betting naturally accompanies it. The character of the voters is not staked. I cast my vote, perchance, as I think right; but I am not vitally concerned that right should prevail. I am willing to leave it to the majority.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Character, Thinking, Voting

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• I do really well in the traditional board games: Backgammon, Checkers.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Games, Boards, Checkers

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• I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.

  Zoe Kazan

  Games, Mad, Luck

  "Need to Meet: Zoe Kazan". Interview with Thelma Adams, www.marieclaire.com. February 11, 2010.

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• He remembered poor Julian [actually F. Scott Fitzgerald] and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, "The very rich are different from you and me." And how someone had said to Julian, "Yes, they have more money."

  Ernest Hemingway

  Money, Scott Fitzgerald, Different

  "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" (1938).

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