What is your favorite chess quote?

"These Hypermodern players who object to 1.e4 will play about 20 moves in which nothing happens; then the annotator will declare with a flourish, 'and now White threatens e4!'"

Emanuel Lasker

"The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem. ... I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists." - Marcel Duchamp (There has been debate about the translation)

"He who analyzes blitz games is stupid." - Nezhmetdinov (cited by Kramnik in "My Life and Games" according to Soltis in "The Wisest Things Ever Said about Chess")

"That rakia from cow dung you are drinking apparently has bad side effects." - IM pfren

no its from Nimzovich, Nigel short cited it like 3 times or so in the candidates... 

As a rule, the more mistakes there are in a game, the more memorable it remains, because you have suffered and worried over each mistake at the board.-korchnoi

nice

The passed Pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures such as police surveillance are not sufficient.  NIMZOVITCH

I like the chess comparison which Boris Spassky used to explain why his first marriage failed: "We were like bishops of opposite colors".Having an exwife i can relate.

"And the Devil bared his teeth in a grin as he pushed his c-pawn one square, for the Caro-Kann comes from the deepest pits of Hell."

- Shternshain

"When you don't know what to do, wait for your opponent to get an idea; it is sure to be bad."

- Siegbert Tarrasch

When I have White, I win because I am White; when I have Black, I win because I am Bogolyubov.  -  Efim Bogolyubov

Chess is not for everyone. Most people are not egotistical (when I deign to notice them), nor are they obsessional (not that I am; I'm not. Really, I'm not. I'm not I'm not I'm not); nor are they competitive enough (I think I've proved that this is the best post on this board). -- Unknown

Bobby Fischer:

- That's what chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one.

- I like the moment when I break a man's ego.

- Best by test. (on 1.e4)

- I'm not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I'm the best. You don't need a match to prove it. (just prior to their '72 match)

On Fischer:

- Suddenly it was obvious to me in my analysis I had missed what Fischer had found with the greatest of ease at the board. -- Mikhail Botvinnik

- Many chess players were surprised when after the game, Fischer quietly explained: "I had already analyzed this possibility" in a position which I thought was not possible to foresee from the opening. -- Mikhail Tal

- It is difficult to play against Einstein’s theory. -- Mikhail Tal (on his first loss to Fischer)

- When you play Bobby, it is not a question if you win or lose. It is a question if you survive. -- Boris Spassky

Fischer apparently thought the same thing about Karpov....

LOL good one

"I only look one move ahead, but it is the right one!"
-Capablanca 

haha, great quotes,

there is also a another quote i like but its probably not really chess related :  Sometimes i lose and sometimes the others win.

"As one by one I mowed them down, my superiority soon became apparent."
- Capablanca

"You could look at that statement as astounding egotism or the simple truth, and either way I guess you'd probably be right."
- Timothy Hanke

the one to capture first always defends. dont remember who said that

Chess is an art, appearing in the form of a game ( a Soviet Encyclopedia )

Chess is in its essence a game, in its form an art, and in its execution a science ( Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa )

Chess is an almost perfect combination of art, investigative science, knowledge and inspiration ( Raymond Keene )

Chess is beautiful enough to waste your life for ( Hans Ree )

Chess is the fairest of all games ( Isaac Bashevis Singer )

Chess is an excersize full of delights ( Arthur Saul )

Chess is work ( Walter Brown )

Chess is a game of bad moves ( Andy Soltis )

Chess is an international language ( Edward Lasker )

Chess is me ( Salvador Dali )

Chess is ludicrously difficult ( Stephen Fry )

Chess is not a game, but a disease ( Henry Campbell-Bannerman )

Chess, like love, is infectious at any age ( Salo Flohr )

Chess is a beautiful mistress ( Bent Larsen )

Chess is as much a mystery as women ( Cecil Purdy )

Chess is vanity ( Alekhine )

Chess is one of the sins of pride ( John Bromyard )

Chess is a fight ( Emanuel Lasker )

Chess is ruthless, you have got to be prepared to kill people (Nigel Short)

Chess is a game of courteous aggression ( Julian Barnes )

Chess is a gladiatorial contest ( Ray keene )

and you can find dozens more in the fine book " The even more Complete Chess addict " by Mike Fox and Richard James !