Benjamin Franklin Game Quotations

Women & Wine, Game & Deceit, Make the Wealth small and the Wants great.

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

Arguing is a game that two can play at. But it is a strange game in that neither opponent ever wins.

You must not, when you have gained a victory, use any triumphing or insulting expressions, nor show too much of the pleasure you feel; but endeavour to console your adversary, and make him less dissatisfied with himself by every kind and civil expression that may be used with truth; such as, you understand the game better than I, but you are a little inattentive, or, you play too fast; or, you had the best of the game, but something happened to divert your thoughts, and that turned it in my favour.

Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small, and the want great

The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions, for life is a kind of chess.