What is your favorite chess quote?

so good

My favorite anecdote-quote comes from GM Jacques Mieses(it's pronounced M-i-ses not M-a-ises) when he went to England to play in a tournament(different times then) and he was greeted in the recepction room by the English hosts : ''Greetings Mister M-a-ises!!.... -''I am not Mister M-a-ises!!! he said.. I am Master M-i-ses!!! 

My favorite is " Chess is an ocean where a gnat can drink and an elephant can bathe."  This is supposedly an old Indian saying.

I forget now who said it, but the way I remember how to pronounce his name is "I hate Mieses to pieces", an homage to Jinx the cat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZGkYW4b5I0

"On the chessboard lies and hypocrisy do not survive long."

Lasker

"I like it when I've broken the other man's ego." 

"I like to see them squirm."  ---Both quotes of Bobby Fischer

Chess is everything:Art, Science and Sport.-Karpov

These are some of my favorites beyond the Bnejamin Franklin quote I posted way, way back in this thread:

“Chess books should be used as we use glasses: to assist
the sight, although some players make use of them as if
they thought they conferred sight”
(Jose Raul Capablanca)

“My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes
I don’t take these things into consideration”
(Bobby Fischer)

Here  is one:

“Chess is played with the mind and not with the hands!”
(Renaud and Kahn)

Sounds like a recipe for a lot of timeouts.

"He who has a slight disadvantage plays more attentively, inventively and more boldly than his antagonist who either takes it easy or aspires after too much. Thus a slight disadvantage is very frequently seen to convert into a good, solid advantage."    Emanuel Lasker

Curious insight - having an actual advantage results in a non-intuitive psychological disadvantage (and visa-versa)?

Yes, we human being are strange, aren't we?  I guess the interplay between reason and emotion makes us fallable, but also enables a rich variety of psychological types and experiences.

I have often paraphrased the Lasker quote above (for the sake of ironic humor) as "I play better when I'm losing".  But the detailed eloquence of his actual words I think conveys a profound insight.

Guilty!

I don't know who said this but:

"No one ever won a game by resigning."

"Stop adjusting my damn pieces."

Said by one of my opponents (can't remember his name) to me during a tournament game many years ago because I kept putting them in the very center of the squares because he wouldn't. It was bugging me, I did say adjust first though.

Ah....the many fine memories of tournament chess.

This is Tartakover's saying, I tend to follow this rule in every game I play

"I resign!"

I get goosebumps every time I hear it.

"Never shit on the board until there is absolutely no hope in your position.Then it might actually be an idea!"

- Anonymous GM