Quotes with cards

  • Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!
  • In the whole range of human activities, war most closely resembles a game of cards.
  • Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom s. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.
  • According to tarot historian Gertrude Moakley, the cards' fanciful images - from the Fool to Death - were inspired by the costumed figures who participated in carnival parades.
  • Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Samuel Johnson A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs. A Judge may play a little at cards for his own amusement; but he is not to play at marbles, or chuck farthing in the Piazza.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Finley Peter Dunne A man's idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement and burglary.
    Finley Peter Dunne
    American Journalist, Humorist (1867 - 1936)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner According to tarot historian Gertrude Moakley, the cards' fanciful images - from the Fool to Death - were inspired by the costumed figures who participated in carnival parades.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Bryan Cogman After we map out all the main characters' individual arcs, using color-coded index cards, we arrange them by episode and get a rough idea of the scene order.
    Bryan Cogman
    American writer and producer (1979 - )
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  • Bill Dedman As more workers lose manufacturing jobs as companies cut back, some are being forced into lower-paying retail jobs. But they still have union cards in their wallets.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Charles Lamb Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • David Garrick Cards were at first for benefits designed, sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind.
    David Garrick
    English actor and playwright (1717 - 1779)
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  • Norman Cousins Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.
    Norman Cousins
    American Editor, Humanitarian, Author (1915 - 1990)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Flip Wilson Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.
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  • Francis Quarles Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.
    Francis Quarles
    British poet (1592 - 1644)
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  • John Gay How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards.
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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  • Samuel Johnson I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Tom Ogden I use many props. The props act as cue cards reminding me of what to say next.
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  • Bruce Forsyth I'm the Joker full of jest, I play my cards close to my chest; but here's a pair that's worth revealing, come on dollies, do your dealing!
    Play Your Cards Right When introducing his two Dolly Dealers on the olde
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Van Morrison In order to win you must be prepared to lose something. And leave one or two cards showing.
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  • Carl von Clausewitz In the whole range of human activities, war most closely resembles a game of cards.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Bob Barr It is not just software glitches and corrupted memory cards that should be on the minds of election officials. Hackers pose another very real problem whereby an election could be tilted towards a favored candidate.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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