Famous quotes containing the words player and/or hand:
“The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)
“Far off, men swell, bully, and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are feeble folk.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)