Mark Twain Quotes

I don't even pay attention to the odds, to be honest with you.

I can make a virtue of slapdash. Slapdash can give you courage.

Temerity is not always successful.

It's about putting the pedal to the metal and not asking any questions at all and just going for it.

Well, I can fake my way around some things, but I don't think I would be good at betting.

I don't take a lot of notice of odds.

I pretty much operate on adrenaline and ignorance.

Throw caution to the wind and just do it.

There is a difference between being bold and being rash.

I'm always ready to play for money.

I haven't got enough sense not to pitch.

I consider myself a fearless idiot.

If someone dares me to do something I'll just do it.

There's a fine line between brave and mad. But whatever I do, I go for it.

I'm not a gambler and I never have been.

I'm the kind of guy who, if you tell me you can't do something, like, 'Brian, you can't do a backflip off that two-floor building,' and I'm going to give it a shot.

There's a fine line between audacity and idiocy.

I like to take chances, and that's the key to comedy -- dancing like an idiot but doing it with wild abandon.

I'm not a betting man, and even if I was, I certainly wouldn't bet on this! I would not bet on the Best Actor.

Sometimes if something scares me, I lean right into it . I’m not a brave person— I’m more of a fearless idiot.

Rick, I’ll tell you what - ten thousand bucks? Ten thousand dollar bet?

In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.

I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone.

It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.

Some people have more guts than brains.