Weekend Words: Gamble
In a case of metaphor becoming reality, on Tuesday Hyperallergic passed along the news that Helly Nahmad Gallery on the Upper East Side had been busted by the Feds for running “high-stakes poker games involving Wall Street financiers, Hollywood celebrities and professional athletes."
In a case of metaphor becoming reality, on Tuesday Hyperallergic passed along the news that Helly Nahmad Gallery on the Upper East Side had been busted by the Feds for running “high-stakes poker games involving Wall Street financiers, Hollywood celebrities and professional athletes.”
Who says that the high-end art market isn’t a platinum-plated casino? Weekend Words recommends holding your cards close to your chest.
“Part of the $10 million I spent on gambling, part on booze and part on women. The rest I spent foolishly.”
—George Raft
“The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.”
—Ambrose Bierce
“Never bring a lot of money to where a poor man lives. He can only lose what little he has. On the other hand it is mathematically possible that he might win whatever you bring with you. What you must do, with money and the poor, is never let them get too close to one another.”
—Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye
“Gambling makes boys selfish and cruel as well as men.”
—Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown’s Schooldays
“The whore and the gambler by the State
Licensed to build that nation’s fate
The harlot’s cry from street to street
Shall weave old England’s winding sheet.”
—William Blake, “Auguries of Innocence”
“If you’re playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can’t tell who the sucker is, it’s you.”
—Paul Newman
