Quotes from Robert Byrne

If the numbers keep mounting, newspapers will eventually have to admit that pool exists and give it some coverage.

Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography.

In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.

It's amazing how much funny stuff there is.... [A] river of rich comedic milk is flowing across the land, and as fast as I skim off the cream more cream appears.... I may be doomed to wade around forever in other people's pith. Not that it's such a bad life.

Getting caught is the mother of invention.

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

The purpose of life is to have a life with purpose.

Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.

Byrne's Law: In any electrical circuit, appliances and wiring will burn out to protect fuses.

If you know a good player who is tempted by pool hustling, introduce him at once to a career guidance counselor, a psychotherapist, or a surgeon who does lobotomies.

Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left.

A game is great, in my view, only if it can be played happily by a sane person of at least average intelligence for several hours a day for fifty years. Both pool and billiards qualify.