The billiard-sharp whom anyone catches
His doom’s extremely hard—
He’s made to dwell
In a dungeon cell
On a spot that’s always barred.
And there he plays extravagant matches
In fitless finger-stalls,
On a cloth untrue
With a twisted cue
And elliptical billiard balls.
- The Mikado - Gilbert and Sullivan
A certain dexterity in games of skill argues a well-balanced mind, but such dexterity as you have shown is evidence, I fear, of a misspent youth.
- Herbert Spencer - British economist and philosopher
Pope Pius IX had a billiard table installed in the Vatican in 1846. Along with tennis, the only sports tolerated in the Holy City.
Mary, Queen of Scots, was beheaded and her body wrapped in the cloth from her billiard table.
Other Players
Marie Antoinette
Louis XIV
Mozart
His doom’s extremely hard—
He’s made to dwell
In a dungeon cell
On a spot that’s always barred.
And there he plays extravagant matches
In fitless finger-stalls,
On a cloth untrue
With a twisted cue
And elliptical billiard balls.
- The Mikado - Gilbert and Sullivan
A certain dexterity in games of skill argues a well-balanced mind, but such dexterity as you have shown is evidence, I fear, of a misspent youth.
- Herbert Spencer - British economist and philosopher
Pope Pius IX had a billiard table installed in the Vatican in 1846. Along with tennis, the only sports tolerated in the Holy City.
Mary, Queen of Scots, was beheaded and her body wrapped in the cloth from her billiard table.
Other Players
Marie Antoinette
Louis XIV
Mozart
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