A Quote by W. C. Fields

I don't object to nine aces in one deck. But when a man lays down five aces in one hand... and besides, I know what I dealt him!

W. C. Fields

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W. C. Fields
American - Comedian
January 29, 1880 - December 25, 1946

One pair rarely wins an Omaha pot, even if that pair is aces. In Hold'em, on the other hand, a pair of aces is right around the average winning hand.

Daniel Negreanu

I may not be playing with a full deck but I don't need a full deck. I have four aces.

Jonathan Winters

Some people get dealt all the aces in life.

Anne Mallory

Ethical man: A Christian holding four aces.

Mark Twain

Reforms come from the bottom. No man with four aces requests a new deal.

Paul Frank Baer

A miracle is an act or event out of the order of nature and unaccountable, as beating a normal hand of four kings and an ace with four aces and a king.

Ambrose Bierce

On the four aces doom'd to roll.

Charles Churchill

I mean maybe I was holding all the aces, but what was the game?

Joan Didion

He had the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.

Mark Twain

When [the magician] clicks his fingers and cards change to the four aces, we know we have experienced sleight of hand. Real magic would not be quite that quick and easy. Real magic would take investment. Real magic would draw you in, and make you nervous.

Derren Brown

None of us have any control over the deck or the hand we've been dealt. What we do have is total responibility as to how we play the hand.

Steve Alten

I loved the idea of a girl going into a dark alley, and a monster comes, and then she just aces him. It’s like, you want to see the tiny person suddenly take control. God, my whole career is basically about that!