Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is time. If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by time. You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate indecision! Napoleon Hill
He is gone now. His shop is gone. Weld Square is gone. His life has been wiped clean off the board. But I wake in the night and I see his face and I hear his voice. Charles Reis Felix
The odds on any intelligent person having an unhappy childhood are better than fair, and the odds on a sad ending are practically off the board. Wilfrid Sheed