Francis Quarles Quotes

My father was a gambler. My father could not resist a casino or a card game. He loved gambling.

I'm not being really intelligent in my film choices; I'm just landing the opportunity when it comes.

One thing I have learned in my painful career as a gambler is that bragging when you get lucky and win a few games will plunge you into gloom and unacceptable beatings very soon. It happens every time.

I used to gamble when I was young. I'm wiser now.

It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.

The Devil invented gambling.

I went broke after sophomore year, gambled away all my money, sold some guns, turned $750 into $10,000, flew to Vegas, turned ten thou into $187,000.

Man may his fate foresee, but not prevent. 'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.

In a free enterprise system, with an honest and stable money, there is dominantly a close link between effort and productivity, on the one hand, and economic reward on the other. Inflation severs this link. Reward comes to depend less and less on effort and production, and more and more on successful gambling and luck.

A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.

It's not the cards that you have all the time that makes you a winner or a loser.

The humblest observer who goes to the mines sees and says that gold-digging is of the character of a lottery; the gold thus obtained is not the same thing with the wages of honest toil. But, practically, he forgets what he has seen, for he has seen only the fact, not the principle, and goes into trade there, that is, buys a ticket in what commonly proves another lottery, where the fact is not so obvious.

A despairing heart is the true prophet of approaching evil; his actions may weave the webs of Fortune, but not break them.

Many a man who goes to Las Vegas to get away from it all soon finds that Las Vegas gets it all away from him.

Snake eyes is a gambling term, and an animal term, too.

Hath fortune dealt thee ill cards? let wisdom make thee a good gamester. In a fair gale, every fool may sail, but wise behavior in a storm commends the wisdom of a pilot; to bear adversity with an equal mind is both the sign and glory of a brave spirit.

I see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living.

We have been just going like a house afire, and we couldent see any reason why we shouldent keep right on burning. Our tastes were acquired on credit, and we wanted to keep on enjoying 'em on credit.

I know content-wise I leave nothing to chance. I have no anxiety about what I'm going to do once I'm out on stage.

It is lost at dice, what ancient honor won.

A wise prince then...should never be idle in times of peace but should industriously lay up stores of which to avail himself in times of adversity so that when fortune abandons him he may be prepared to resist her blows.

For never, never, wicked man was wise.