what is your favorite quote?
 

what is your favorite quote and who said it? just wondering

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

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"If anything can go wrong, It will"
-Murphy's Law-

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"When you raise to get people out, what you are really doing is raising to cut down their odds. In fact, you may sometimes cut thier odds so severely that you hope they call rather than fold after you raise." - David Sklansky

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There are few things that are so unpardonably neglected in our country as poker.... Why, I have known clergymen, good men, kindhearted, liberal, sincere, and all that, who did not know the meaning of a "flush." It is enough to make one ashamed of one's species."
--Mark Twain

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"Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes."

- William Shatner, Airplane 2

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the world is round, it has no point...


kinda true, right?

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All right, they're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time!

- Lt. Gen. Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller, USMC (when surrounded by 8 enemy divisions in Korea)

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`But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
`Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'
`How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
`You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'


BTW--is this OOT?

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"GGGG-UNIT!!""

lol, jk

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All right, they're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time!

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Wow! I realy like this one!

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Probablly something by Ken Warren.

THUCYDIDES
 

"... hope is by nature an expensive commodity, and those who are risking their all on one cast find out what it means only when they already ruined"

Thucydides (460BC -400BC)
Excerpt from History Of The Peloponnesian War (Book 5, Chapter XVII: The Melian Dialogue: 103)

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“You married, Manny?”
“No Way.”
“Women?”
“Sometimes. But it never lasts.”
“What’s the problem?”
“A woman is a full-time job. You have to choose your profession.”
“I suppose there is an emotional drain.”
“Physical too. They want to [censored] night and day.”
“Get one you like to [censored].”
“Yes, but if you drink or gamble they think it’s a put-
down of their love.”
“Get one who likes to drink, gamble and [censored].”
“Who wants a woman like that?”

Charles Bukowski (1920-1994)
Excerpt from Factotum, Black Sparrow Press 1975

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"I have not failed. I've just found 10.000 ways that don't work."

Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)

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"Old Chinese saying, 'When No Tiger in Mountain Then Monkey Is King'."

Herbert Osborne Yardley (1889-1958)
The Education Of A Poker Player. 1957

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all-around:

"Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind." - Bertrand Russell

poker-related:

"So, if it’s fifty-fifty, would you want to go in holding a made hand or needing to make a hand?" - Mike Matusow

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"GGGG-UNIT!!""

lol, jk

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how can this be your favorite quote
when there is SO SEDUCTIVE

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"Post in the correct forum."
--Moderator von Moderateheim

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“People who act like they know everything,
Really annoy those of us who actually do.”

A. Beckman


"An Optimist is just a Pessimist lacking experience."
DR

“I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant”

My last gf

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"I'm 36B. Not too huge, but a nice handful."


- girl that sat next to me in high-school Botany class.

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Probablly something by Ken Warren.

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or Larry Phillips:

"Mathematicians tell us that each hand takes place independently of all others. This is good advice to ignore."
"Longtime, experienced card players believe in the bunching of luck. They have seen it. they have felt it."


Larry Phillips - Zen and the Art of Poker

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“I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant”

My last gf

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AKA, "You misheard what I though I said."

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Invariably, every sentence that begins with the words "long time, experienced card players" usually ends with a preposterous statement. Who are these cardplayers that larry phillips are talking about? Aren't these the same old impotent rocks who have played poker for decades and still lose money to twenty one year old kids like me?

-Snowball

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Are you trying to say that old, impotent and long-time losing rocks who believe in the bunching of luck because they have 'seen it' and 'felt it' could actually be wrong?

Heavens to Betsy!! Say it isn't so!!

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"They misunderestimated me"

"Fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again."

"It's clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas."

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"Forget it Jake...It's Chinatown..." -Chinatown 1974

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"They cut my nose. I like my nose. I like to breeeathe through it."

(or something like that)

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"Don't you know that my prayer is growing ripe,
upon your vision, as upon a tree?"

Rainer Maria Rilke in his poem 'I am O anxious one, don't you hear my voice'

'No Pasaran' (you shall not pass!)

A slogan of the socialist workers anti-fascist struggle in the spanish civil war of 1936-39
Also, Gandalf, played by Ian McKellen says it in english to the Balrog in the Fellowship of the Ring movie.

Last one:

'Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' hierarchies? and even if one of them pressed me
suddenly against his heart: I would be consumed
in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing
but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us. Every angel is terrifying

-Rainer Maria Rilke in THE FIRST ELEGY

It's hard to stop quoting there because the whole poem is so fluid.

Best,
Snowball

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I found the following quote in Barry Greenstein's book. BTW, I highly recommend the book.

"There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about"
John von Neumann

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winning money at online poker is impossible.

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Stephen Katz (from a recent article by the online-gambling 'expert' that was posted in the general forum)

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"Neither a borrower nor a blender be."

"Let there be blight."

"To pee or not to pee, that is the question."

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"China! Its always those damn Japanese."

- A friend after hearing the anwser while playing Trivial Pursuit.

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"I had outs"

"I know you have the nuts but I call"

anything said by Napolean Dynamite

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"Visualize Whirrled Peas"
- Bumper Sticker

"No bitch. No car. No problems."
- Somebody in Thrasher magasine


No, I'm not a very deep person.

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"There is nothing more egotistical than quoting yourself."
- dizong

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"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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you like Edward Snow's translation? Try Gass or Mitchell.

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dunno why, just sums up the movie for me-

"I haven't been [censored] like that since grade school"

Fight Club

"We're a generation of men raised by women. I say the last thing we need is another woman"

Fight Club

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I quoted from Robert Hass's translation, although I may have mistyped a little. I think my copy of Malte Laurids Brigge is Mitchell. I remember it was excellent.

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Dutch Boyd:

"Poker is alot like sex...everybody thinks they are the best, but most people dont know what they are doing"

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"It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck." -- Joseph Conrad

---Leavenfish

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dunno why, just sums up the movie for me-

"I haven't been [censored] like that since grade school"

Fight Club


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What's crazy about this is that I read the book before I saw the movie, and I remember the line from the book was "I want to have your abortion" and they replaced it with this (Palahniuk talks about it on the commentary DVD too). There's a couple of other things from the book that are "toned down" for the movie (for instance in the book they get the fat from constantly overstuffing Marla's mother instead of the lipo clinic), but I always thought that the movie rendition of this line was actually more potentially offensive than the book one. Oh well.

I don't know that i can think of a greatest quote of all time, but as far as movie lines, I'll have to go with:

"3000 years of tradition from Moses to Sandy Koufax, you're god damn right I'm living in the (censored) past!"

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Dutch Boyd:

"Poker is alot like sex...everybody thinks they are the best, but most people dont know what they are doing"

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This is your favorite quote of all time?

Newsflash - this quote has been around for a long time, just not necessarily with "poker" as the subject.