Billiard Proverbs

• A ball in hand is worth two in baulk.
• Spare the chalk and spoil the shot.
• There’s many a slip ‘twixt the ball and the tip.
• Reckless pots make rueful scores.
• Practice makes professionals.
• Chalk in time saves miscues.
• A fool may get position but it requires a wise man to
  keep it.
• The fanciest strokes make not the finest game.
• Position is better than points.
• The prudent man looketh well to his tip.
• Position is the principal thing; therefore get position;
  and with all thy getting get the score up.
• You cannot put new balls into old pockets—while the
  patent “Rapide” pockets may be fitted to any table for
  22s. 6d. L.K.
• It is estimated that the number of houses in Edinburgh
  in which a billiard table has been installed, is four hundred
  at the very least.