Pot Limit Game

Famous quotes containing the words pot, limit and/or game:

“Would I were in an alehouse in London. I would give all my
fame for a pot of ale, and safety.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.”
—Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636–1711)

“Wild Bill was indulging in his favorite pastime of a friendly game of cards in the old No. 10 saloon. For the second time in his career, he was sitting with his back to an open door. Jack McCall walked in, shot him through the back of the head, and rushed from the place, only to be captured shortly afterward. Wild Bill’s dead hand held aces and eights, and from that time on this has been known in the West as “the dead man’s hand.””
—State of South Dakota, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)