Nelson Algren Quotes

The definition of a stupid thing is something that if you do everything right, you still get hurt. Fire-eating and love are stupid things.

Nothing good happens after midnight.

I make bad choices. I've got such dodgy tastes in men.

You're the kind of man my mother warned me about.

Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.

I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware.

Curiosity did kill the cat, but I'm very curious.

I'm not a betting man.

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.

Diving into Internet speculation is like playing with the devil. It's tempting, of course.

I might get drunk one day and fall in love or fall over a hooker outside, and I would have consummated a relationship that I couldn't necessarily believe in.

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.

Against the bold, daring is unsafe.

Extremes are dangerous.

He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.

I'm not really a betting person. I work too hard for my money to give it away.

Fear is not the best advisor.

Cardinals are never off-base. They are often ill-advised.

He who sups with the devil has need of a long spoon

Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.

it is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

I've been in my share of trouble.

I don't know if it's a very smart idea to admire the living.

Pragmatism is not always a good thing. Experience is not always a good thing.

One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things: Nothing good happens after midnight, nothing good happens when you're around guns unless you're going hunting, and you don't want to mess around with women that you don't know because a lot of times, bad things happen.