Quotes about cards

I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.

— Samuel Johnson

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

— Charles Lamb

The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.

— David Mamet

The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

— Arthur Schopenhauer