“If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.” — John Kenneth Galbraith
Quotations
A Literary Knight’s Tour
The knight’s tour is a recreation familiar to chessplayers: Move a knight about an empty chessboard so as to visit each square exactly once.
On this board, each square contains a syllable. Collect them in the right order and you’ll compose a six-line quotation from Shakespeare. What is it?
(Hint: Start on e4, “to”.)
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“God is a Republican, and Santa Claus is a Democrat.” — H.L. Mencken
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“Why are numbers beautiful? It’s like asking why is Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony beautiful. If you don’t see why, someone can’t tell you. I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren’t beautiful, nothing is.” — Paul Erdös
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“Adults are only obsolete children.” — Dr. Seuss
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“I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.” — Jorge Luis Borges
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“There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.” — Somerset Maugham
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“It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.” — H.L. Mencken
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“Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.” — Tom Stoppard
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“I’m just glad it’ll be Clark Gable who’s falling on his face, and not Gary Cooper.” — Gary Cooper, declining the lead role in Gone with the Wind