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Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shallow men believe in luck. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fortune always will confer an aura – Of worth, unworthily; and in this
world – The lucky person passes for a genius. – Euripides
"When I played pool I was like a good psychiatrist. I cured
'em of all their daydreams and delusions. -Minnesota Fats
"Talk to me baby, I know you understand my needs." -Roger
Fleming
“The strong point in poker is never to lose your temper, either with those you
are playing with or, more particularly, with the cards. There is no sympathy
in poker. Always keep cool. If you lose your head you will lose all your
chips.” - William J. Florence, From The Gentleman’s Handbook on
Poker
Luck's always to blame. - Jean de la Fontaine
Diligence is the mother of good luck. - Benjamin Franklin
"Don't gamble the rent money or you'll land up sleeping on
the park bench." -Capt. Summer Fun, Ret.
"Guessing has never been widely acclaimed as a good gambling
strategy." -Dr. G
Ida and Pearl, the two Jewish broads from Cheyenne, that's how they were
known. One of my first memories of my grandmother is of her trying to
teach me how to play poker when I couldn't even see the table. I'd dress up
and try to go gambling with the old ladies, and for some reason they'd let me
in. - Gina Gershon
"It is better to make people think you are a bad poker player, then to play and
remove all doubt. Don't play to impress, play to win." Michael Gersitz
"Don't get mad that you lost, get mad because you didn't win."
Michael Gersitz
“Playing poker in their Quonset hut on Tinian, killing the last hours of the
preatomic age” - Peter Goldman
Some folk want their luck buttered. - Thomas Hardy
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting
in a semi-circle. - Mitch Hedberg
“I love to relive the memories of when I was spry enough to fish the little
trout streams. Otherwise, I like to write and play poker” - Tony Hillerman
"Whether he likes it or not, a man's character is stripped bare at the poker
table; if the other players read him better than he does, he has only himself
to blame. Unless he is both able and prepared to see himself as others do,
flaws and all, he will be a loser in cards, as in life." - Anthony Holden
"Poker may be a branch of psychological warfare, an art form or indeed a
way of life – but it is also merely a game, in which money is simply the
means of keeping score." - Anthony Holden, Big Deal
"The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once
and put it in your pocket." - Kin Hubbard
"I am now eased in my finances and replenished in my wardrobe."
-Andrew Jackson after winning a horse race.
"A lottery is a salutary instrument and a tax…laid on
the willing only, that is to say, on those who can risk the
price of a ticket without sensible injury, for the possibility
of a higher prize." -Thomas Jefferson
"Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of
hostility against all mankind." -Thomas Jefferson. Accordingly,
he kept meticulous records of his backgammon and card winnings.
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have
of it. - President Thomas Jefferson
"Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women,
gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one." -Pope
John XXIII
"I am sorry I have not learned to play cards. It is very useful
in life. It generates kindness and consolidates society."
-Samuel Johnson
"Suckers have no business with money anyway." -Canada Bill
Jones, Legendary Three-card Monte Dealer
"The guy who invented poker was bright, but the guy who invented the chip
was a genius." - Big Julie
“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
"You know what luck is? Luck is believing you're lucky...to
hold front position in this rat-race you've got to believe
you're lucky." -Stanley Kowalski, A Streetcar Named Desire
"Poker is a microcosm of all we admire and disdain about capitalism and
democracy. It can be rough-hewn or polished, warm or cold, charitable and
caring, or hard and impersonal, fickle and elusive, but ultimately it is fair,
and right, and just." - Lou Krieger
”Hold'em - like life itself - has its defining moment. It's the flop. When you
see the flop, you're looking at 71 percent of your hand, and the cost is only a
single round of betting.” - Lou Krieger
”Most of the money you'll win at poker comes not from the brilliance of your
own play, but from the ineptitude of your opponents.” Lou Krieger
”There's opportunity in poker.... If Horace Greeley were alive today, his
advice wouldn't be "Go West, young man, and grow up with the country."
Instead, he'd point to that deck of cards on table and say, "Shuffle up and
deal.” - Lou Krieger
”I believe in poker the way I believe in the American Dream. Poker is good
for you. It enriches the soul, sharpens the intellect, heals the spirit, and –
when played well, nourishes the wallet.” - Lou Krieger
Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you
Get. - Ray Kroc
”Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.” - Charles Lamb
"If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he
lucky?" -Stanislaw J. Lec
“The cardinal sin in poker, worse than playing did cards, worse even than
figuring your odds correctly, is becoming emotionally involved.”
Katy Lederer, A Girlhood Among Gamblers
"Son, we are sorry about the tuition funds...your mother and
I did not know you are not supposed to split tens..." -Letters
home from people visiting Reno.
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