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 »
No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the identification o...f Tallulah's husband. It's tough enough to be bogged down in a legend. It would be even tougher to marry one.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 »
An expense of ends to means is fate;Morganization tyrannizing over character. The menagerie, or forms and powers of the spine, is ...a book of fate: the bill of the bird, the skull of the snake, determines tyrannically its limits.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 »
Much of a man's character will be found betokened in his backbone. I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever you are.... A thin joist of a spine never yet upheld a full and noble soul.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 »
Country of hunchbacks!--where the strong, straight spine Jeered at by crooked children, makes his way... Through by-streets at the kindest hour of day,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »