Insurance. An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beat...ing the man who keeps the table.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisp...rudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man's idea in a card game is war--cruel, devastating and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement... and burglary.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Dude: I been goin' in the back door. They haven't been lettin' me in the front. Chance: Think you're good enough?... Dude: I'd like to find out. Chance: So would I.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Chance: That tune, they been playin' it all day. What is it? Dude: Oh, it's some Mexican piece. I heard it farther south....<...br />Colorado: Well, they call it "The Deguello," the cutthroat song. The Mexicans played it for those Texas boys when they had them bottled up in the Alamo. Played it day and night 'til it was all over. Now do you know what he means by it? Chance: No quarter, no mercy for the loser.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had lived a blessed time; for from this instant... There's nothing serious in mortality. All is but toys; renown and grace is dead, The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »