Not the famous chess grandmasterBUT
Robert Byrne, the famous billiard player and noted authorRobert Byrne is the author of seven novels, five collections of humorous quotations, seven books on billiards, two anthologies, and an expose of frauds in the literary world. One of his novels, Thrill, was made into NBC’s Monday Night Movie, which aired for the first time on May 20, 1996. Four of his novels were selections of Reader’s Digest Condensed Books and published in many languages. His style is widely praised for its clarity and wit. Byrne’s Standard Book of Pool and Billiards, published in 1978 and expanded in 1998, has sold over 400,000 copies
HERE IS A SELECTION OF WITTY QUOTATIONS:
- A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.
- Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography.
- Byrne's Law: In any electrical circuit, appliances and wiring will burn out to protect fuses.
- Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
- Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.
- Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo.
- Getting caught is the mother of invention.
- Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.
- Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left.
- No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.
- One reason people get divorced is that they run out of gift ideas.
- Partying is such sweet sorrow.
- Prejudices save time.
- The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
- There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.
- To err is human, to purr feline.
- Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.
- Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours."
SPRAGGETT ON CHESS
