Quotable Quotes
Even if you are not the best Texas Holdem player at the table, you can still make an impression if you are up to snuff with your poker quotations. Citing the wise words of other famous card lovers will earn you respect, if not a big pot. For instance, after falling for a bluff you might utter the reflections of the famous American psychologist, Karl Meninger, “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.” When you’ve stayed in a hand too long, you can look at the bright side as observed by the famous etiquette expert, Emily Post, who said, “In poker you play alone and can therefore play as carefully or as foolishly as you please, but in bridge your partner has to suffer with you.” Perhaps she was a reader of Somerset Maugham who had made this similar observation: “Is it a reasonable thing, I ask you, for a grown man to run about and hit a ball? Poker’s the only game fit for a grown man. Then, your hand is against every man’s, and every man’s is against yours. ”
