10 Random Poker Quotes

• "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 the species." --Mark Twain
• "If you want to know what lies on the road ahead, ask the man whos on the way back" anon
• I cried because I had no draw, until I met a man with no pair.
• No bad beat can withstand the assault of laughter!
• Famous last words before he became a eunuch 'Id bet my bollocks on this hand'
• God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffible game of his own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, 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. --Gaiman and Pratchett's "Good Omens"
• "You get your chips your way, I'll get my chips mine." (Phil Ivey, to Howard Lederer)
• The worst hand to have is the second best hand.
• "Why do you think the same five guys make it to the final table of the World Series of Poker EVERY YEAR? What, are they the luckiest guys in Las Vegas?" - Mike McDermott (Rounders, 1998)
• when a player asks me for lucky chips, i say they weren't lucky for the person i got them from