Quotes about bet

A collection of quotes on the topic of bet, doing, likeness, going.

Quotes about bet

“I bet my life to skate, everytime. I think, that's the mission of my life. That's why I was born here. [...] I was born for my skate.”

Yuzuru Hanyu (1994) Japanese figure skater (1994-)

CBC interview with Scott Russell

Thinking, Life

“I’d made a family friendly game about a beaver before this, when I went to put it online it got torn apart by a few prominent reviewers. People said that the main character looked like a scary animatronic animal. I was heartbroken and was ready to give up on game-making. Then one night something just snapped in me, and I thought to myself- I bet I can make something a lot scarier than that.”

Scott Cawthon (1971) American independent video game designer

People, Family, Game, Animals

“Drugs are a bet with your mind.”

“It’s like gambling, somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don’t know where you’re 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.”

Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors

Drink, Night

“She's strong! And scary… I bet she's single… I'd put money on it..”

Masashi Kishimoto book Naruto

Source: Naruto, Vol. 18: Tsunade's Choice

Money, Strong

“Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet you can't win.”

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love

Game

“Drugs are a bet with your mind.”

Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors

“In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world.”

Franz Kafka book The Zürau Aphorisms

52, Im Kampf zwischen Dir und der Welt, sekundiere der Welt. Aphorism 52 in Unpublished Works 1916-1918 http://www.kafka.org/index.php?unpub1916_1918 Variant translations: In the struggle between yourself and the world, back the world. In the struggle between yourself and the world, side with the world. In the fight between you and the world, back the world. The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918) Variant: In the struggle between yourself and the world, second the world.

World

“I bet his mother was a wyvern.
-Scamp”

Tamora Pierce The Realms of the Gods

Source: The Realms of the Gods

“I'm secure enough in myself to wear panties with bows on them. Besides, they are comfy and soft."
"I bet." He almost purred.
I gulped.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Burns

“I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister.
Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first.”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

Women, Sister

“There comes a point when the confused or abused person hears a voice saying in his head, Oh well, might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb, and, depending on the particular situation in which he finds him he either spends his last bit of money on a lottery ticket, or places on the gaming table the watch he inherited from his father and silver cigarette case that was a gift from his mother, or bets everything he has on red even though he knows that red has come up five times in a row”

José Saramago book The Cave

Source: The Cave (2000), p. 14 (Vintage 2003)

Money, Game, Time, Dependency

“I think that sick people in Ankh-Morpork generally go to a vet. It's generally a better bet. There's more pressure on a vet to get it right. People say "it was god's will" when granny dies, but they get angry when they lose a cow.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

Usenet

God, People, Thinking

“You may think you're not pretty enough for me, but I bet I'm pretty enough for the both of us.”

Darby Conley (1970) American cartoonist

Bucky Katt's Big Book of fun, page 97
Bucky Katt

Thinking

“He left no time to regret,
Kept his dick wet,
With his same old safe bet.
Me & my head high,
And my tears dry,
Get on without my guy.”

Amy Winehouse (1983–2011) English singer and songwriter

Back To Black
Song lyrics, Back To Black (2006)

Guy, Tear, Time

“"The first time you saw me, I bet you didn't think, He's going to get me killed."
"The first time I saw you, I wished you'd go back to Idris. You know I don't like change."
"I grew on you, though."
"Eventually. Like a moss, or a skin disease."”

Cassandra Clare The Mortal Instruments

Jace Herondale and Alec Lightwood, pg. 437-438
The Mortal Instruments, City of Heavenly Fire (2014)

Disease, Thinking, Change, Time

“I always thought Detritus would be good at: "I bet you're wondrin' how many time I fired dis crossbow--"”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

Usenet

Time

“Now that we're 18 days before the election, Mr. Severely Conservative wants you to think he was severely kidding about everything he said over the last year. He told folks he was the ideal candidate for the Tea Party, now he's telling folks, "What? Who me?" He's forgetting what his own positions are. And he's betting that you will too. I mean, he's changing up so much and backtrackin' and sidesteppin'. We've gotta name this condition that he's going though. I think it's called Romnesia. That's what it's called. I think that's what he's goin' through. Now, I'm not a medical doctor, but I do wanna go over some of the symptoms with you, because I wanna make sure nobody else catches it.You know, if you say you're for equal pay for equal work, but you keep refusing to say whether or not you'd sign a bill that protects equal pay for equal work, you might have Romnesia.If you say women should have access to contraceptive care, but you support legislation that would let your employer deny you contraceptive care, you might have a case of Romnesia.If you say you'll protect a woman's right to choose, but you stand up in a primary debate and say that you'd be delighted to sign a law outlying — outlawing that right to choose in all cases — man, you definitely got Romnesia.Now, this extends to other issues. If you say earlier in the year, "I'm gonna give a tax cut to the top 1%", and in a debate you say, "I don't know anything about giving tax cuts to rich folks", you need to get a thermometer, take your temperature, because you've probably got Romnesia.If you say that you're a champion of the coal industry when, while you were governor, you stood in front of a coal plant and said "This plant will kill you" —[audience: Romnesia! ] that's some Romnesia.And if you come down with a case of Romnesia and you can't seem to remember the policies that are still on your website, or the promises you've made over the six years you've been running for President, here's the good news: Obamacare covers pre-existing conditions. We can fix you up.. We've got a cure. We can make you well, Virginia. This is a curable disease.”

Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America

Campaign rally http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/10/19/remarks-president-campaign-event-fairfax-va, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, 2012

Women, Disease, Law, Support

“It's queer they'd be allowin' the sick ones to read books when I'll bet it's the same lazy readin' in the house bought the half of them down with the consumption itself.”

Eugene O'Neill The Straw

Carmody: Act 1, Scene 2
The Straw (1919)

Books, Reading, Housing

“You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people.”

Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer

People, Horse

“If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

People, Star, Night

“I bet he never goes on YouTube. He's too busy. It's only tragic cases like you and me who are always online.”

Sophie Kinsella book Mini Shopaholic

Source: Mini Shopaholic

Business

“I'm not allowed to bet, but if I could, my money would be on you.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Money

“Might not hurt you to pick up a book, just as an experiment."

Whatever. I looked up the definition for 'nerd' in the dictionary. Know what it said?"

"I bet you'll tell me."

" 'If you're reading this, you are one.' "

You're a riot.”

Brandon Mull (1974) American fiction writer

Source: Grip of the Shadow Plague

Books, Reading, Hurt

“Yossarian decided to change the subject. "Now you're changing the subject." he pointed out diplomatically. "I'll bet I can name two things to be miserable about for every one you can name to be thankful for.”

Joseph Heller book Catch-22

Source: Catch-22

Change

“There will be guards,” Bast said. “And traps. And alarms. You can bet the house is heavily charmed to keep out gods.”
“Magicians can do that?” I asked. I imagined a big can of pesticide labeled God-Away.”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

God, Imagination, Housing

“I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place, since any God worth believing in would prefer an honest agnostic to a calculating hypocrite.”

Alan M. Dershowitz (1938) American lawyer, author

Source: Letters to a Young Lawyer

God, Question

“I'll bet there aren't too many people hooked on crack who can play the bagpipes.”

George Carlin book Brain Droppings

Source: Brain Droppings

People

“Two U. S. Marine skeletons guarded the doors. They grinned down at us, rocket-propelled grenade launchers held across their chests.
"You know," Grover mumbled, "I bet Hades doesn't have trouble with door-to-door salesman.”

Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief

Source: The Lightning Thief

“I read,' I say. 'I study and read. I bet I've read everything you've read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out spines and ROM drives. I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”

David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest

Thinking, Study, Reading

“Never bet against a cat.”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

Cats

“You bled on the Speaking stars… I bet there's a law somewhere about that.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

Law, Star

“Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.”

W.C. Fields (1880–1946) actor

People, Sense, Horse

“Because you told me you don't have feelings for me anymore, and you see, that's very akward, because I still have them for you. And I bet you know it.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Feeling

“I'll bet I'm as old as you are."
"I'm older than Sanskrit."
"Well, I was waitress at the Last Supper."
"I'm so old I remember when McDonald's had only sold a hundred burgers."
"You win.”

Tom Robbins book Still Life with Woodpecker

Source: Still Life with Woodpecker

“I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

Variant: I've never been a millionaire but I know I'd be just darling at it.

“Naruto: I bet you're dying to know my name!
Gaara: I couldn't care less.”

Masashi Kishimoto book Naruto

“Fifty dorcas they’re setting up an ambush near my ship. (Nykyrian)
No bet. I know they are. They’re too stupid to not be obvious and predictable. Gah, I hate abiding by the law. Too bad you can’t slaughter them where they stand. (Syn)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Born of the Night

Hate, Stupidity, Law

“Here is a girl who is pretty in a quiet way. I bet she's had a very sad life.”

Wally Lamb book She's Come Undone

Source: She's Come Undone

Life, Sadness, Way, Girl

“I bet you thought you were very clever, sneaking off like that." "Medium clever, "Simon acknowledged. "Like a cross between George Clooney in Ocean's Eleven and those MythbBusters guys, but, you know, better-looking.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Guy

“You bet your Grannie's Panties I will.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: Dead Witch Walking

“Hmmm, I bet you’d be really cute with hornays. Not that you’re not cute right now, but you’re a bit young. You’re only what? Four in human years? Oh wait, that’s wrong, isn’t it? You ninety? (Simi)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Infinity

Waiting

“Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.”

André Malraux (1901–1976) French novelist, art theorist and politician

Idea, Failure, Courage, Success

“That's the most stupid expression in the world. 'I fell in love'—as if you had no choice. There's a moment, there's always a moment; I can do this, I can give in to this or I can resist it. I don't know when your moment was but I bet there was one.”

Patrick Marber Closer

Source: Closer

Love, Stupidity, World

“… there’s also nothing noble about being fearless. How much do you wanna bet the last man standing in a battle is usually the biggest fool of all?” - Paul Hudson”

Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer

Source: How to Kill a Rock Star

Fools

“I bet," said Mulch, "that you would set the world on fire just to watch it burn."
Opal tapped the suggestion into a small electronic notepad on her pocket computer.
Thanks for that. Now, tell me everything.”

Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books

Source: The Time Paradox

World

“Exactly," said Maddie. "What’s your favorite flavor?"
"I bet I can guess," said Simone. "Chocolate."
"Strawberry," said Maddie."Vanilla,” said Seth.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Succubus Shadows

“They're betting on how long I'll live!' I burst out. 'They're not my friends!”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle."
I really hate this expression. I bet fish would totally want bicycles.”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

Source: Princess on the Brink

Hate, Fish

“Hey,” the cabbie yelled. “How’s about a tip?”

“You bet-ski,” Evie said, heading toward the old Victorian mansion, her long silk scarf trailing behind her. “Don’t kiss strange men in Penn Station.”

Libba Bray book The Diviners

Source: The Diviners

Men, Kiss

“If I bet on humanity, I'd never cash a ticket.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

“You know in sixth grade, when they made all of us girls go into this other room and watch a video about getting our periods and stuff? I bet while we were gone, the boys were watching a video about how to look at each other in that infuriating way.”

Meg Cabot The Princess Diaries

Source: The Princess Diaries

Way, Girl, Boy

“I’d bet the leeches are looking for me. Because I glow and I’m wicked smart. They probably want to breed with me.” (Regin)”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Pleasure of a Dark Prince

“I bet if you go through the rest of your life telling yourself, "I'm sparkling," you'll have a whole different energy and experience.”

Wendy Mass (1967) American children's writer

Source: Heaven Looks a Lot Like the Mall

Life

“If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher.”

Debbie Macomber (1948) American writer

Source: Mrs. Miracle

Grass, Water

“I’ll take your bet,” he said grimly. “I’m going to win it. And in three months, I’m going to put this back on your finger, and take you to bed, and do things to you that are outlawed in the civilized world.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Devil in Winter

World

“We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.”

Maxwell Maltz (1889–1975) Plastic surgeon, self-help author

Life, Idea, Courage, Happiness

“When he wins the bet, I tell Griggs that it will take me a lifetime to save up two trillion dollars and he tells me that he's only giving me seventy years.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

“Hey, check this weirdo out." Hi was inspecting a bust on the mantel. "This face is ninety percent eyebrow. What do you want to bet he owned slaves?"

Scowling to match the carving's expression, Hi spoke in a gravelly voice.”

Kathy Reichs book Code

Source: Code

“Maybe you're graduating from fireballs to lightning bolts," Adrian suggested. "I bet it'd be a lot like throwing ninja stars. Except, well, you could incinerate people.”

Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell

Source: The Indigo Spell

People, Star

“I bet you can't eat ten bananas!"
"I bet you're right.”

Sarah Dessen book This Lullaby

Source: This Lullaby

“I bet your mom would let me."
-Pigeon, Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus-”

Mo Willems Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!

Source: Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!

Moms

“Oh Tigger, where are your manners?"

"I don’t know, but I bet they’re having more fun than I am.”

A.A. Milne (1882–1956) British author

“Never bet your money on another man's game.”

Laura Ingalls Wilder book Farmer Boy

Source: Farmer Boy

Money, Game

“I bet you never thought the hardest part of finding your ‘saviorʹ would be getting her mom to let her stay out past curfew.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

Moms, Past, Parting

“We scarified a mosquito. I bet that's what did it. It was probably a virgin too.”

Kelley Armstrong Broken

Source: Broken

“You are ugly now, on the inside, where it matters most, and if you ever lost your good looks, i bet you wouldn't be smart enough to get them back. Kyle Kingsbury, you are beastly.”

Alex Flinn book Beastly

Source: Beastly

“Even if he doesn’t eat, he knows the cookies. I’ll bet his mother stuffed him full as a kid. (Tory)
Not really. My mom wasn’t the Betty Crocker kind. (Acheron)
(Not unless it involved napalm or plagues.)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

Moms

“What is there to see in Europe? I'll bet those foreigners can't show us a thing we haven't got right here in Georgia.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“I'll bet he was myrrh. Bastard, he brings the cheapest gift and now he wants to sodomize me.”

Christopher Moore book Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

Source: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

“Remember, girl on fire,” he says, “I'm still betting on you.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

Girl

“Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack.”

Max Brooks book The Zombie Survival Guide

Source: The Zombie Survival Guide

Education, School

“Miss me? Bet you did… so would I.”

Eoin Colfer book And Another Thing...

Source: And Another Thing...

“- If I tell you, will you let met go?
- You bet, partner. […]
- You promised!
- Nope. I said ""you bet."" You did… and you lost.”

Scott Snyder (1976) American writer

American Vampire, Vol. 1

“Sure," said Adrian. "I bet going in there and kicking down the door will change their minds. Take Rose with you, and you guys'll make a really good impression.”

Richelle Mead Shadow Kiss

Source: Shadow Kiss

Change

“There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from where you've carefully placed them, it shakes your faith, right where you stand.”

Sarah Dessen (1970) American writer

Source: Someone Like You (1998)

World, Faith

“Well, what are we waiting for?… She said 'children.' I bet that's anyone under a couple of centuries old. Let's go.”

Donita K. Paul (1950) American writer

Source: DragonQuest

Children, Waiting

“Im still betting on you. - Cinna.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“They're betting on how long I'll live!" I burst out. "They're not my friends!"

"Well, try and pretend!" snaps Effie. Then she composes herself and beams at me. "See, like this. I'm smiling at you even though you're aggravating me.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Smile

“Did you take Joyce's engine?'
'My instructions were to disable the car, but one of the men bet Hal a burger he couldn't get the engine out. So Hal removed the engine.”

Janet Evanovich book Lean Mean Thirteen

Source: Lean Mean Thirteen

Men, Cars

“Say what you will, there is something fine about our old aristocracy. I'll bet Trotsky couldn't hit a moving secretary with an egg on a dark night.”

P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) English author

Night

“Life is a gamble, at terrible odds. If it were a bet you wouldn’t take it.”

Tom Stoppard (1937) British playwright

Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Life

“Well, yes, absolutely, to say that people of faith have no role in the public square? You bet that makes you throw up. What kind of country do we live that says only people of non-faith can come into the public square and make their case?”

Rick Santorum (1958) American politician

asked why he "almost threw up" at John F. Kennedy's speech to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association
2012-02-26
This Week with George Stephanopoulos
ABC
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/week-transcript-rick-santorum/story?id=15785514&page=5

People, Faith, Country

“What these tests tell employers about potential employees is hard to imagine, since the "right" answers should be obvious to anyone who has ever encountered the principle of hierarchy and subordination. Do I work well with others? You bet, but never to the point where I would hesitate to inform on them for the slightest infraction. Am I capable of independent decision making? Oh yes, but I know better than to let this capacity interfere with a slavish obedience to orders. At The Maids, a housecleaning service, I am given something called the "Accutrac personality test," which warns at the beginning that "Accutrac has multiple measures which detect attempts to distort or 'psych out' the questionnaire." Naturally, I "never" find it hard "to stop moods of self-pity," nor do I imagine that others are talking about me behind my back or believe that "management and employees will always be in conflict because they have totally different sets of goals."”

Barbara Ehrenreich (1941) American writer and journalist

The real function of these tests, I decide, is to convey information not to the employer but to the potential employee, and the information conveyed is always: You will have no secrets from us.
Source: Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America (2001), Ch. 2: Scrubbing in Maine (p. 59)

Secret, Imagination, Mood, Nature

“Sheep are especially sensitive to the exact moment of the turn of the tide. In this game, nine tethered sheep react, pull on the stakes, jolt the chairs and rattle the tea-cups. Bets are taken on the combined sensitivity of any three lines of sheep -- read vertically, horizontally, or diagonally. Since there are normally three tide-turns every twenty-four hours, it is normal practice to take the best of three results. Reliable clocks, calendars, and time-tables are used to determine the accuracy of the sheep's forecast.”

Peter Greenaway (1942) British film director

Drowning By Numbers

Game, Time, Reading, Tea

“I don't think there was anything in my brain right then except the usual background static -- the kind you get on your radio when it's turned up all the way and tuned to no station at all. My brain had checked to the power, so to speak; the little guy wearing the Napoleon hat inside was showing aces and betting them.”

Stephen King book Rage

Rage (1977)

Way, Guy, Thinking

“I, for one, bet on science as helping us. I have yet to see how it fundamentally endangers us, even with the H-bomb lurking about. Science has given us more lives than it has taken; we must remember that.”

Philip K. Dick (1928–1982) American author

"Self Portrait" (1968), reprinted in The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick (1995), ed. Lawrence Sutin

Science, Help

“I love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he said he was up for it but he never called back. I bet I could make him run around.”

Boris Johnson (1964) British politician, historian and journalist

Hickey, The Express, 21 March 2005.
2000s, 2005

Love, Passion

“I bet there's a tear in your eye wherever you're watching this. There's nothing wrong with tears; tears are often shed in joy.”

Jimmy Magee (1935–2017) Gaelic games commentatot

As Katie Taylor triumphed at the 2012 Summer Olympics. irishtimes.com http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/0811/1224321996178.html Olympic Games

Tear, Joy

“Did I miss the skyscrapers, did I miss the long freeway?
From the coast of California to the shores of The Delaware Bay
You can bet your life I did, till I got back in the U. S. A.”

Chuck Berry (1926–2017) American rock-and-roll musician

"Back in the U.S.A." (1959)
Song lyrics

Life

“Little soldier, little insect
You know war it has no heart
It will kill you in the sunshine
Or happily in the the dark
Where kindness is a card game
Or a bent up cigarette
In the trenches, in the hard rain
With a bullet and a bet.”

Conor Oberst (1980) American musician

No One Would Riot for Less
Cassadaga (2007)

War, Game, Heart

“Generally, a betting system for which each wager depends only on present resources and present probability of success is known as a Markov betting system.”

Richard Arnold Epstein (1927) American physicist

Source: The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic (Revised Edition) 1977, Chapter Three, Fundamental Principles Of A Theory Of Gambling, p. 61

Success, Dependency

“To hedge the bets he made every working day, Meriwether kept a set of rosary beads in his briefcase.”

William Poundstone (1955) American writer

Part Six, Blowing Up, Martingale Man, p. 278
Fortune's Formula (2005)

“'If you're very tall it's not just rude boys who feel entitled to pass remarks. Perfect strangers in pubs are always coming up and saying, "Me and my friends are just having a bet. Just how tall are you?" Women to whom one has just been introduced think that it breaks the ice if they scream, "Goodness, you're tall!' How would they like it if I broke the ice first, by screaming, "Goodness, what thick ankles!"”

Tyrone Guthrie (1900–1971) English actor and director

or "Goodness what a bust!
Various Directions (1965)

Women, Feeling, Boy, Thinking

“How great a quality is horse sense! Someone has defined it as that something which keeps horses from betting on men!”

Vincent Massey (1887–1967) Governor General of Canada

Address to the Annual Dinner of the Canadian Press, Toronto, April 18, 1956
Speaking Of Canada - (1959)

Men, Sense, Horse

“We are happy in this world just in proporshun as we make others happy--i stand reddy tew bet 50 dollars on this saying.”

Josh Billings (1818–1885) American humorist

Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)

World, Happiness

“One person I do feel a little sorry for, though, is the Archbishop of Canterbury, the most important clergyman in Britain and he's only got two lousy palaces to live in. What sort of life is that for a man of God? I bet if Jesus came back, even he'd be embarrassed for him; I bet he wouldn't be able to look him in the eye.”

Pat Condell (1949) Stand-up comedian, writer, and Internet personality

"Religion in the UK" (17 April 2007) http://youtube.com/watch?v=uOYje1oJt7Q 2007

Life, God, Feeling, Personality

“A man who works for another is not going to be paid any more than he is worth; you can bet on that. A man ought to get what he can earn. Don't make any difference whether it's running a farm, running a bank or running a show; a man who knows he's making money for other people ought to get some of the profits he brings in. It's business, I tell you. There ain't no sentiment to it. Forget that stuff.”

Babe Ruth (1895–1948) American baseball player

Responding to a reporter asking whether or not he believed that other players merited salaries comparable to his own (i.e. $52,000 a year, as per Ruth's newly signed 1922 contract), as quoted in "Have to Get More of 'Em,' Says Babe Ruth When He Hears of the Income Tax," in The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (March 10, 1922)

Money, People, Business, Forgetting