Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left.
- Robert Byrne
Service, Someone, Left, Farewell
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.
- Robert Byrne
Career, Surgeon, Hustling, Introduce
Getting caught is the mother of invention.
- Robert Byrne
Mother, Caught, Getting, Invention
Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.
- Robert Byrne
Later, Lot, Saves, Aggravation
One reason people get divorced is that they run out of gift ideas.
- Robert Byrne
Gift, Reason, Get, Divorced
It's easy to make a cue last a lifetime. Don't boil it or freeze it in the trunk of a car. Don't lean it against a wall for years. If you lose a game to a complete idiot, hit the edge of the table in anger with something other than your cue.
- Robert Byrne
Game, Other, Against, Cue
To apply spin with security, you must learn to make a snug bridge with your forefinger looped over the cue. When you hit the cueball, follow straight through; don't let your cue rise in the air after impact.
- Robert Byrne
Through, Air, Your, Cue
There is money to be made giving trick-shot shows at schools, clubs, tournaments, and even shopping centers. Pool shows on television almost always include a few fancy shots.
- Robert Byrne
Always, Include, Tournaments, Shopping
Petty thievery is a more profitable job than pool hustling, which it resembles, requires far less talent and training, and is equally devoid of promise.
- Robert Byrne
Which, Hustling, Resembles, Petty
Byrne's Law: In any electrical circuit, appliances and wiring will burn out to protect fuses.
- Robert Byrne
Law, Burn, Circuit, Wiring
Winter is nature's way of saying, 'Up yours.'
- Robert Byrne
Nature, Saying, Winter, Yours
Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
- Robert Byrne
Politics, Candidate, Allowed, Vote
Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo.
- Robert Byrne
Status Quo, Including, Quo, Flux
Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.
- Robert Byrne
Doing, Waste, Well, Waste Of Time
Once-dominant games like straight pool and three-cushion billiards have lost ground to eight-ball - the game of choice for millions of tavern league players - and nine-ball, the preeminent tournament game.
- Robert Byrne
Game, Like, Players, Billiards
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.
- Robert Byrne
Game, Average, Hours, Billiards
If the numbers keep mounting, newspapers will eventually have to admit that pool exists and give it some coverage.
- Robert Byrne
Give, Some, Coverage, Exists
There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.
- Robert Byrne
Start, Two, Kinds, Finish
No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.
- Robert Byrne
Book, Suicide, Committed, Good Book
Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography.
- Robert Byrne
Through, His, Believes, Flunked
A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.
- Robert Byrne
Politics, Rest, Young, Young Man
Partying is such sweet sorrow.
- Robert Byrne
Sweet, Sorrow, Partying
Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.
- Robert Byrne
Funny, Imagine, Mile, Walk
Prejudices save time.
- Robert Byrne
Time, Save, Prejudices
To err is human, to purr feline.
- Robert Byrne
Human, To Err Is Human, Err
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
- Robert Byrne
Life, Purpose, Life Is A
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