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Ace The town will never be the same. After the Tangiers, the big corporations took it all over. Today it looks like Disneyland. And while the kids play cardboard pirates, Mommy and Daddy drop the house payments and Junior's college money on the poker slots. In the old days, dealers knew your name, what you drank, what you played. Today, it's like checkin' into an airport. And if you order room service, you're lucky if you get it by Thursday. Today, it's all gone. You get a whale show up with four million in a suitcase, and some twenty-five-year-old hotel school kid is gonna want his Social Security Number. After the Teamsters got knocked out of the box, the corporations tore down practically every one of the old casinos. And where did the money come from to rebuild the pyramids Junk bonds. But in the end, I wound up right back where I started. I could still pick winners, and I could still make money for all kinds of people back home. And why mess up a good thing – Casino
I've discovered that researching family descendants is similar to putting a mouse into a puzzle box to find the cheese. Every time you think you're on the right path, you hit a dead end. – T.R. Threston
Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get. – Forrest Gump
Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. – Italian Proverb
Happy During high school, I played junior hockey and still hold two league records most time spent in the penalty box and I was the only guy to ever take off his skate and try to stab somebody. – Happy Gilmore
A gift - be it a present, a kind word or a job done with care and love - explains itself... and if receivin' it embarrasses you, it's because your 'thanks box' is warped. – Alice Childress
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawer. – Robert Frost
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. – Robert Frost
Ace In Vegas, everybody's gotta watch everybody else. Since the players are looking to beat the casino, the dealers are watching the players. The box men are watching the dealers. The floor men are watching the box men. The pit bosses are watching the floor men. The shift bosses are watching the pit bosses. The casino manager is watching the shift bosses. I'm watching the casino manager. And the eye-in-the-sky is watching us all. – Casino
After the game, the king and pawn go into the same box. – Italian Proverb
Always treat people with respect and kindness, for they may be selected to be on your jury. – Steve Pershing
At the opera in Milan with my daughter and me, Needleman leaned out of his box and fell into the orchestra pit. Too proud to admit it was a mistake, he attended the opera every night for a month and repeated it each time. – Woody Allen
Every day has its own cereal box prize. – Leslie Miklosy
For in and out, above, about, below, 'Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow-show, Play'd in a Box whose Candle is the Sun, Round which we Phantom Figures come and go. – Omar Khayym
He must not laugh at his own wheeze. A snuff box has no right to sneeze. – Dave Preston
History is a living horse laughing at a wooden horse. History is a wind blowing where it listeth. History is no sure thing to bet on. History is a box of tricks with a lost key. History is a labyrinth of doors with sliding panels, a book of ciphers with the code in a cave of the Saragossa sea. History says, if it pleases, Excuse me, I beg your pardon, it will never happen again if I can help it. – Carl Sandburg
If your kid makes one of those little homemade guitars out of a cigar box and rubber bands, don't let him just play it once or twice and then throw it away. Make him practice on it, every day, for about three hours a day. Later, he'll thank you. – Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
It looks as if it was put in by an Indian. (looking at an old-fashioned fuse box while on a factory tour near Edinburgh) – Prince Phillip
It seems to me the book has not just aesthetic values-- the charming little clothy box of the thing, the smell of the glue, even the print, which has its own beauty. But there's something about the sensation of ink on paper that is in some sense a thing, a phenomenon rather than an epiphenomenon. I can't break the association of electric trash with the computer screen. Words on the screen give the sense of being just another passing electronic wriggle. – John Updike
Jury: a group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health and business engagements, have failed to fool him. – H. L. Mencken
On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away. – Tom Lehrer
One thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse. – Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence. – H.L. Mencken
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence. – H. L. Mencken
The tipping custom originated in England when small sums were dropped into a box marked T.I.P.S. --TO INSURE PROMPT SERVICE. – Author Unknown, (apocryphal)

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