“ Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died. ”
- Steven Wright- Copy
- 1.9K
“ The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent. ”
- David Mamet- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead. ”
- Jackie Robinson- Copy
- 1.6K
“ The other day I was playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died. ”
- Steven Wright- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well. ”
- Jack London- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Poker, n. A game said to be played with cards for some purpose to this lexicographer unknown. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 2.1K
“ I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand. ”
- Jonathan Swift- Copy
- 75
“ If you play bridge badly you make your partner suffer, but if you play poker badly you make everybody happy. ”
- Joe Laurie Jr.- Copy
- 3K
“ Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 470
“ Abruptly the poker of memory stirs the ashes of recollection and uncovers a forgotten ember, still smoldering down there, still hot, still glowing, still red as red. ”
- William Manchester- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Air power is like poker. A second-best hand is like none at all - it will cost you dough and win you nothing. ”
- George Kenney- Copy
- 1.8K
“ There are few things that are so unpardonably neglected in our country as poker. The upper class knows very little about it. Now and then you find ambassadors who have sort of a general knowledge of the game, but the ignorance of the people is fearful… ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Is it a reasonable thing, I ask you, for a grown man to run about and hit a ball? Poker's the only game fit for a grown man. Then, your hand is against every man's, and every man's is against yours. Teamwork? Who ever made a fortune by teamwork? There's only one way to make a fortune, and that's to down the fellow who's up against you. ”
- W. Somerset Maugham- Copy
- 3K
“ Poker is a fighting game, a game in which each player tries to get the better of every other player and does so by fair means or foul so long as he obeys the rules of the game. He may bluff or lie about his own strength, the object of the game being either to frighten the other players into believing that he has greater strength or else to prove it. ”
- Karl Menninger- Copy
- 1.3K
“ There are few things that are so unpardonably neglected in our country as poker. The upper class knows very little about it. Now and then you find ambassadors who have sort of a general knowledge of the game, but the ignorance of the people is fearful… ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 2.8K
“ What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers of jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by bursts of anger and quarrels. ”
- St. Augustine- Copy
- 1.2K
“ There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work. ”
- Fred W. Fitch- Copy
- 2.9K
“ I have lived to know that the great secret of happiness is this: never suffer your energies to stagnate. The old adage of too many irons in the fire, conveys an abominable lie. You cannot have too many - poker, tongs and all - keep them all going. ”
- Adam Clarke- Copy
- 73
“ If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability. ”
- Vannevar Bush- Copy
- 3.3K
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