It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
- Bill LovejoyThus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
- Blaise Pascal