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Quotes of the Day for 8 November 2004 - Games

Milton Bradley was born at Vienna, Maine on this day in 1836. In his teens he began to learn the lithography trade and setup the first color press in Massachusetts in 1860. He did quite well selling color prints of Abraham Lincoln until Abe grew a beard and outdated Bradley's art. The next year he invented a game called "The Checkered Game of Life" with a spinner to determine each player's progress along a path of colored squares, fortune being determined by the color landed on. In 1880 he added jigsaw puzzles to the product line. The company, now a division of Hasbro, still sells board games including my all-time favorite, Scrabble.

If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.
     - Chinese proberb

You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.
     - Christine Marie Evert

Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.
     - Chuck Noll

If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.
     - Dean Smith

The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.
     - H. T. Leslie

Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!
     - John Anthony Ciardi, 1916 - 1986

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