Does anyone know of any quotes about poker and life?

Question

I need quotes that compare poker to life. THANKS!

Answer 1

"Never eat at a place called Mom's or play cards with a guy named Doc"

"You trust your mother, but you cut the cards"

Answer 2

My all-time favorite:

“Life is like a game of poker: If you don't put anything in the pot, there won't be anything  to take out”

“Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.”

Stephen Wright



“Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them.”

Mark Twain



God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of the players, (ie everybody), to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.”

Neil Gaiman



If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.”

Paul Newman



People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker”

Mary Austin



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



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Answer 3

"A Smith & Wesson beats a royal flush" - Anon.

"ha,ha,ha,ha, a full house"

"Gee, does that beat me?  

All I have is two pair.  

A pair of ones, and another pair of ones." - Bugs Bunny (as he's turning up four aces)

Answer 4

"The game [of poker] represents the worst aspects of capitalism that have made our country so great."

-Walter Matthau

"Poker is the game closest to the western conception of life, where life and thought are recognized as intimately combined, where free will prevails over philosophies of fate or of chance, where men are considered moral agents and where- at least in the short run- the important thing is not what happens but what people think happens."

-John Luckacs, "Poker and the American Character" (1963)

"Perception is reality."

-Immanuel Kant

"See, in my world - the world of high-stakes gin and poker - we play for cold, hard cash. It's all business, pure and simple. Anyone who thinks cardplaying is a 'game' - I'll show you a loser. Money... M-O-N-E-Y. That's how you measure success. One dollar at a time. One chip at a time. That's how you keep score."

-Stuey Unger

"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. Why, I have known clergymen, good men, kind-hearted, liberal, sincere, and all that, who did not know the meaning of a "flush." It is enough to make one ashamed of one's species."

-Quoted in A Bibliography of Mark Twain, Merle Johnson

"Trust everybody, but cut the cards."

-Finley Peter Dunne (1867-1936), American Humorist

"Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well."

-Jack London (1876-1916)

"Poker is a strange occupation. You never know how it's going to bend your personality. But likely as not, it will bend it."

-Doyle Brunson Poker Wisdom of a Champion, 2003

"If you ain't just a little scared when you enter a casino, you are either very rich or you haven't studied the games enough."

-Anonymous

"The less you bet, the more you lose when you win."

-Bonnatti's Law in John Peers, comp. 1001 Logical Laws, p. 147, 1979

Rain and Lisa (IamtheQ)

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

-- Amarillo Slim

“They anticipate losing when they sit down and I try my darnedest not to disappoint one of them.”

-- Amarillo Slim

“Poker is a game of people... It's not the hand I hold, it's the people that I play with.”

-- Amarillo Slim

“The guy who invented poker was bright, but the guy who invented the chip was a genius.”

-- Big Julie

“Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.”

-- Steven Wright

“Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.”

-- Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia (1832)

“You call...gonna be all over, baby”.

-- Scotty Nguyen, during the 1998 World Series of Poker.

Down to the final 2 players, he said this to his opponent while holding the winning hand.

Mae West: Is poker a game of chance?

W.C. Fields: Not the way I play it.

-- My Little Chickadee

"If you don't have my money then you are mine."

-- Rounders

"It hurts doesn't it? Your hopes dashed, your dreams down the toilet. And your fate is sitting right besides you."

-- Rounders

"It's immoral to let a sucker keep his money. "

-- Rounders

"In the poker game of life, women are the rake"

-- Rounders