Adventure Game/history

Famous quotes containing the words adventure, game and/or history:

“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)

“People’s affections can be as thin as paper; life is like a game of chess, changing with each move.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)