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 »
Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul...; when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people, being always excited; women, wine, fame, the table, even ambition, sate... now & then, but every turn of the card & cast of the dice keeps the gambler alive--besides one can game ten times longer than one can do any thing else.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 »
The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling ...den where I have spent more than sixty years, dicebox in hand, shaking the dice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The dice of God are always loaded. The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you... will, balances itself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »