The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one sho...uld never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To be made to hold his tongue is the greatest insult you can offer him--though he might be ready with a poker to make you hold you...rs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
New York state sentence for a Peeping Tom is six months in the workhouse. And they got no windows in the workhouse. You know, in t...he old days they used to put your eyes out with a red-hot poker.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In poker there is, of course, no attempt to disguise the aggressive element. Poker is a fighting game, a game in which each player... tries to get the better of every other player and does so by fair means or foul so long as he obeys the rules of the game. He may bluff or lie about his own strength, the object of the game being either to frighten the other players into believing that he has greater strength or else to prove it. Chess is a more highly symbolic game, but the aggressions are therefore even more frankly represented in the play. It probably began as a war game; that is, the representation of a miniature battle between the forces of two kingdoms.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How coyote got his ratty old fur coat... bits of old fur the sparrows stuck on him with dabs of pitch. That was after he lost his proud original one in a poker game.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Groot: Now wait a minute, Quo. You really ain't gonna take a man's only set of teeth, are ya? Quo: Uh huh.... Groot: Yeah, but I gotta use 'em for eatin'. Quo: Come grub you get 'em. Groot: Whad ya' gonna do with 'em? Quo: My name now Two-Jaw Quo.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »