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 (18091845)
“The hand I burned and whose skin is shriveled like that of a mummys is less sensitive than the other to cold or heat. My soul is the same; it passed through fire.”
—Gustave Flaubert (18211880)