Groucho Marx Quotes

Who then may trust the dice, at Fortune's throw?

Any prediction of the future is certainly a lie in order to sell a position.

Banking, as far as I can tell, seems to be almost as precise a science as using a slot machine. You either blindly hope for the best, delude yourself into thinking you've worked out a system, or open it up when no one's looking and rig the settings so it'll pay out illegally.

Probability is the very guide of life.

I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate.

Time to toss the dice

Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise.

The world neither ever saw, nor ever will see, a perfectly fair lottery.

She looks at me out of the side of her uncovered eye. "Chess, Zombie: defending yourself from the move that hasn't happened yet. Does it matter that he doesn't light up through our eyepieces? That he missed us when he could have taken us own? If two possibilities are equally probable but mutually exclusive, which one matters the most? Which one do you bet your life on?

In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted.

But what's so blessed-fair that fears no blot? Thou mayst be false, and yet I know it not.

There is no way of knowing for sure whether or not you can trust someone, for the simple reason that circumstances change all of the time.

Life consists of a long chain of coincidences.

Life is a game played on us while we are playing other games.

Seriously. Dados bounce." Bobby in Raven Rise

All of our lives are governed by a certain degree of faith in bullshit.

The dice cannot read their own spots.

A reasonable probability is the only certainty.

A throw of the dice will never abolish chance.

Nobody gets to pick what life gives them

Belief in God is an act of faith. But so is believing our existence is simply the result of chance.

If there's 10,000 people looking at the stocks and trying to pick winners, one in 10,000 is going to score, by chance alone, a great coup, and that's all that's going on. It's a game, it's a chance operation, and people think they are doing something purposeful... but they're really not.

The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organsie gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.

Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second.