billiards quotes

Billiards is very similar to snooker, except there are only three balls and no one watches it.

- Steve Davis
  Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

Up, all of us, and to Billiards.

- Samuel Pepys
  Diary entry,17 Jul.

It was remarked to me by the late Mr Charles Roupell†that to play billiards well was a sign of an ill- spent youth.

- Herbert Spencer
Quoted in Duncan Life and Letters of Spencer, ch.20. Robert Louis Stevenson has also been credited with this observation.