Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Darwin

But Geology carries the day: it is like the pleasure of gambling, speculating, on first arriving, what the rocks may be; I often mentally cry out 3 to 1 Tertiary against primitive; but the latter have hitherto won all the bets.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no gambling like politics.

Nathan Barankin

Many of California's gambling laws were written in the 19th Century, and some of them need to be modernized.

Dick Davies

The people who want to push for the end of legalized sports gambling in Nevada would be encouraging the crooks. And they would be counterproductive to what they want to accomplish.

William Shakespeare

It is lost at dice, what ancient honor won.

Charles Caleb Colton

Gaming has been resorted to by the affluent as a refuge from ennui. It is a mental dram, and may succeed for a moment; but, like all other stimuli, it produces indirect debility.

James Weldon Johnson

My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow money from my fellow workmen to settle my room rent and pay for my meals.

Edward Looney

We're seeing a lot of good kids with gambling problems.

Baltasar Gracian

Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.

David Hume

For the purposes of life and conduct, and society, a little good sense is surely better than all this genius, and a little good humour than this extreme sensibility.

Beatrice Webb

the possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius.

Alain de Botton

The genius of religions is that they structure the inner life.

Charles Churchill

Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

Jane Austen

Expect a most agreeable letter; for not being overburdened with subject (having nothing at all to say) I shall have no check to my Genius from beginning to end.

Benjamin Disraeli

Genius, when young, is divine.

Carl von Clausewitz

A prince or general can best demonstrate his genius by managing a campaign exactly to suit his objectives and his resources, doing neither too much nor too little.

Bryant H. McGill

Genius is always accompanied by enthusiasm.

Brian Clough

Anybody who can do anything in Leicester but make a jumper has got to be a genius.

David Hume

Such a superiority do the pursuits of literature possess above every other occupation, that even he who attains but a mediocrity in them, merits the pre-eminence above those that excel the most in the common and vulgar professions.

Audre Lorde

I am very, very happy for Alice Walker.

Audre Lorde

The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions.

Audre Lorde

We're supposed to see "universal" love as heterosexual. What I insist upon in my work is that there is no such thing as universal love in literature.

Audre Lorde

I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?

Charles Clarke

Few nations match our rich resource of literature.

Jane Austen

I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.

Jane Austen

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

Jane Austen

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.