Some Of The Best Quotes About Card Games And Rummy

Some Of The Best Quotes About Card Games And Rummy

Playing card games give you a variety of experiences and rummy is a game that provides a gamut of these. Over the years many quotes and references are shared by some of the famous personalities who enjoyed the game of Rummy. All of these are great sources of motivation to enjoy and excel in the card game of Indian Rummy. Reading quotations about something you like is always entertaining and perhaps these sayings can further motivate you to engage yourself fully in the game.

Here are some of the best quotes about this thrilling game of rummy:

“It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your odds even while waiting for it.”

• Baltasar Gracian (A Spanish Jesuit, philosopher, and baroque prose writer.)

“Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.”

• Jawaharlal Nehru (First Indian PM and an anti-colonial nationalist, secular humanist, social democrat, and author.)

“So simple is the basic game of Rummy that the best way to learn it is to just play it.”

• Walter B. Gibson (An American author and expert magician.)

“If you were to put together a ‘Greatest Hits’ list for card games, you’d have to put Rummy at the top of the list. Probably more people have played Rummy than any other card game.”

• Susan Perry (A writer, novelist, and social psychologist.)

“A beginner with any native common sense can play passable Rummy.”

• Albert H. Morehead (A writer for the NYT, a bridge player, a lexicographer, and an author and editor of reference works.)

“Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.”

• Josh Billings (A famous humor writer and lecturer in the US during the latter half of the 19th century.)

“If you play your cards right things are going to happen in the long run. In the short run, it is anybody’s guess.”

• Ron Livingston (An American actor.)

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.”

• Jack London (Author, journalist, and activist from the US. He was also a pioneer of corporate fiction and American magazines.)

“I must complain the cards are ill shuffled, till I have a good hand.”

• Jonathan Swift (An Anglo-Irish satirist, novelist, essayist, social pamphleteer, poet, and past Dean of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin.)

“Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.”

• Voltaire (A French enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher.)

“Rummy is deservedly popular because it is easy to learn, fast to play, suitable for all ages, playable by any number, and as suitable for all”

• David Parlett (A card and board games scholar, historian, and translator from South London.)

“When the cards are dealt, I just want to destroy people.”

• Stu Ungar (An American professional rummy player regarded to be one of the greatest players of all time)

“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s mind there are few.”

• Shunryu Suzuki (A Sōtō Zen monk and teacher who helped popularize Zen Buddhism in the United States.)

“One should always play fair when one has the winning cards.”

• Oscar Wilde (An Irish poet and playwright.)

“Has fortune dealt you some bad cards? Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.”

• Francis Quarles (An English poet)

“God deals us all different hands. How we play ’em is up to us.”

• Jeannette Walls (an American author and journalist)

Some Anonymous Quotes

• “The guy who invented playing cards was bright, but the guy who invented the rummy game was a genius.”
• “Invite them around to a round of rummy whenever someone calls you joker.”
• “With talent, you win a game, with consistency, you become a champion.”
• “No matter what your circumstances are in life, a simple card game can make you feel special and give great joy, if only for a few fleeting moments.”
• “We do not stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing.”

Our lives are somehow also inspired by rummy! The ability to apply lessons from one’s own life is unique to great minds. You may have found inspiration from these quotes, not only in rummy but in your life as well. Rummy is a great game to play for learning and inspiration as well as for enjoyment. So join a table today and start enjoying this amazing game on our platform or app.