Poker Quotes

The guy who invented poker was bright, but the guy who invented the chip was a genius.-Big Julie

 

Money won is twice as sweet as money earned-Paul Newman as Fast Eddie in The Color of Money
Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.-Charles Lamb

 

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

 

Limit poker is a science, but no-limit is an art. In limit, you are shooting at a target. In no-limit, the target comes alive and shoots back at you.-Jack Strauss

 

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

 

It never hurts for potential opponents to think you’re more than a little stupid and can hardly count all the money in your hip pocket, much less hold on to it.-Amarillo Slim

 

If, after the first twenty minutes, you don't know who the sucker at the table is, it's you. Unknown

Aces are larger than life and greater than mountains.-Mike Caro

It's not enough to succeed. Others must fail.-Gore Vidal

I've always had confidence, but I never let my ego get to the point that I think I'm the superstar, because I know.

That ego has destroyed many a poker career.-Jim Boyd

[Poker] exemplifies the worst aspects of capitalism that have made our country so great. (Wlter Matthau

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

My Kings are a coin flip aginst your Aces. – Unknown

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; thou the way you play it is free will.(Jawaharlal Nehru

Well, I'll just pretend I was playin' with someone else's money. –Unknown

My old pappy always used to say, there is no more deeply satisfying religious experience... than cheatin' on a cheater. –Unknown

Nobody is always a winner, and anybody who says he is, is either a liar or doesn't play poker.-Amarillo Slim

Let me tell you, there's no better medicine than a friendly card game for sloughing off the cares of a workaday world.-Paul Auster

 

I hope to break even this week. I need the money.-Unknown

 

A Smith & Wesson beats four aces.-American Proverb

 

At gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck.-Ian Fleming Casino Royale

 

Neither I nor anyone else can guarantee you will win. If someone tells you they can, do not believe them. Run making sure you have a death grip on your wallet.-Ken Pearlman

 

Your best chance to get a Royal Flush in a casino is in the bathroom- Unknown

 

The smarter you play, the luckier you'll be.-Mark Pilarski

 

No wife can endure a gambling husband unless he is a steady winner.-Lord Dewar

 

He had the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.-Mark Twain

 

Judged by the dollars spent, gambling is now more popular in America than baseball, the movies, and Disneyland-combined.-Timothy L. O'Brien

 

Luck never gives; it only lends.-Wwedish Proverb

 

Gambling is the son of avarice and the father of despair.-French Proverb

 

Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing from something.-Wilson Mizner

 

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
Your best chance to get a Royal Flush in a casino is in the bathroom.
For the true gambler, money is never an end in itself. It's a tool, like language or thought.-Lancey, The Cincinnati Kid

 

Never bet on baseball.-Pete Rose

 

If I lose today, I can look forward to winning tomorrow, and if I win today, I can expect to lose tomorrow. A sure thing is no fun.-Chico Marx

 

They gambled in the Garden of Eden, and they will again if there's another one.-Richard Albert Canfield