Favorite quotes?
 

B & M forum has their threads every so often about “What is your favorite line heard at a poker table?”

What are some of your favorite lines? From any discipline you choose.

E.g. God does not shoot craps ( I mean play dice.)

Here is one of my favorites from one of my favorite philosophers:


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I stick my finger into existence -- it smells of nothing. Where am I? What is this thing called the world? Who is it who lured me into the thing, and now leaves me here? Who am I? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted?

Soren Kierkegaard


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I love the “punch line” - Why was I not consulted?

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"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Albert Einstein

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I would have to say that my favorite two moments at a live table were when

A) Esfandiari shut Hellmuth up with a comment about odds that phil was being ignorant of.

B) Men the master asked for an autograph from Hellmuth at the 2005 WSOP, on a picture of him crying on the floor after a redraw badbeat.

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Peter - "Hey lois we'll just go over to Joes for dinner"
Lois - "Oh great now i dont have to cook"
Peter - "No why dont you go ahead and cook anyways and we'll throw it out, i dont want you to get rusty"

Classic

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"There are three types of bridge players - Those that can count, and those that cannot"

-Famous bridge quote, widely attributed.

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The classic of course.

"Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.'

That's all you need to make it through this life.

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Physics is like sex. Sure it my yield some practical result, but that's not why we do it.
-Richard Feynman

The desire for guidance love and support prompts men to form the social or moral conception of god.
-Albert Einstein

When you understand why you dismiss all other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.
-Stephen Roberts

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"What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after."



Ernest Hemingway, in Death in the Afternoon

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I was thrown out of NYU for cheating on a metaphysics exam. I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.

-Woody Allen