poker quotes

A man who was alleged to have the rigidity of a poker without its occasional warmth.

-Stockton
Of Charles de Gaulle, whose nickname was'Ramrod'. Quoted by Henry Fairlie in the New Republic, 20 Mar1989.

There issuch a thing as luck.There issuch a thing as a run of luck. This is an instructive insight I have gained from pokerthat all things have a rhythm, even the most seemingly inanimate of statistics.

- David Alan Mamet
  Writing in Restaurants,'Things I Have Learned Playing Poker On The Hill'.

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 Alan Mamet
  Writing in Restaurants,'Things I Have Learned Playing Poker On The Hill'.

The Soviet game is chess†ours is poker.We will have to play a creative mixture of both games.

- George P(ratt) Shultz
  Comment to President Reagan. Recalled in Turmoil and Triumph.