Pawns Quotes

141 quotes by 110 authors

In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons. — James MacGregor Burns
I look at improvising as a prolonged game of chess. There's an opening gambit with your pawn in a complex game I have with one… — Steve Carell
I felt ashamed for what I had done. I don't have any excuses. I did what I did. I take full responsibility for myself and… — Louie Anderson
Sweet love! Sweet lines! Sweet life! Here is her hand, the agent of her heart; Here is her oath for love, her honour's pawn — William Shakespeare
Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play:… — G. H. Hardy
Within these premises, the only thing one can be is an impeccable mediator. One is not the player in this cosmic match of chess, one… — Carlos Castaneda
No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity. — Edmund Burke
In Haig's presence, Kissinger referred pointedly to military men as "dumb, stupid animals to be used" as pawns for foreign policy. — Bob Woodward
A passed pawn increase in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes. — Jose Raul Capablanca
Endings of one rook and pawns are about the most common sort of endings arising on the chess board. Yet though they do occur so… — Jose Raul Capablanca
The winning of a pawn among good players of even strength often means the winning of the game. — Jose Raul Capablanca
The great World Champions Morphy, Steinitz, and Lasker were past masters in the art of Pawn play; they had no superiors in their handling of… — Jose Raul Capablanca
The Pawns are the soul of the game — Francois-Andre Danican Philidor
The most important feature of the Chess position is the activity of the pieces. This is absolutely fundamental in all phases of the game: Opening,… — Michael Stean
He who fears an isolated Queen's Pawn should give up Chess — Siegbert Tarrasch
The passed Pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not sufficient — Aron Nimzowitsch
I'd rather have a Pawn than a finger — Reuben Fine
When your house is on fire, you cant be bothered with the neighbors. Or, as we say in Chess, if your King is under attack… — Garry Kasparov
Pawns: they are the soul of this game, they alone form the attack and defense — Francois-Andre Danican Philidor
Pawn endings are to Chess what putting is to golf — Cecil Purdy

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