Cute Quotes About Gambling

The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice is so pleasurable, that I assume it must be evil. 

Heywood Broun

If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.  

Chinese Proverb

There is a very easy way to return from a casino with a small fortune:  go there with a large one.  Jack Yelton

The house doesn't beat the player.  It just gives him the opportunity to beat himself.  

Nick Dandalos

Casinos and prostitutes have the same thing in common; they are both trying to screw you out of your money and send you home with a smile on you face.  

VP Pappy

By gaming we lose both our time and treasure - two things most precious to the life of man.  

Owen Felltham

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

Will Rogers

One of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a spade and a package of garden seeds. 

Dan Bennett

A racehorse is an animal that can take several thousand people for a ride at the same time.  

Author Unknown

There is but one good throw upon the dice, which is, to throw them away.  

Author Unknown

Games of chance are traps to catch school boy novies and gaping country squires, who begin with a guinea and end with a mortgage. 

Author Unknown

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. 

Ambrose Bierce

Quotations About Gardens

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it. 

Charles Dudley Warner

There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling.  

Mirabel Osler

Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it.  

Author Unknown

Weather means more when you have a garden.  There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.  

Marcelene Cox

God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done.  

Author Unknown

When you have done your best for a flower, and it fails, you have some reason to be aggrieved.  

Frank Swinnerton

Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.  

May Sarton

The best fertilizer is the gardener's shadow.  

Author Unknown

I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me.  

Robert Brault

There is no gardening without humility.  Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.  

Alfred Austin

Short Quotes About Friendship

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.  

William Blake

A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers. 

Pam Brown

Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer.  

Author Unknown

A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.  

Grace Pulpit

Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship. 

Dorothy Parker

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.  

Virginia Woolf

There are big ships and small ships.  But the best ship of all is friendship.  

Author Unknown

The language of friendship is not words but meanings. 

Henry David Thoreau

A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked. 

Author Unknown

Friends are kisses blown to us by angels.  

Author Unknown

Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most. 

American Proverb

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.  

William Blake

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. 

Dag Hammarskjold

What is a friend?  A single soul dwelling in two bodies.  

Aristotle

Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things. 

Author Unknown

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.  

Leo Buscaglia

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.  

Sicilian Proverb

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend. 

Aristotle

Quotations About the Future

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. 

Albert Einstein

The past can't see you, but the future is listening. 

Terri Guillemets

And in today already walks tomorrow. 

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The future is always beginning now.  

Mark Strand

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.  

John Sladek

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.  

Paul Valery

Tomorrow is fresh, with no mistakes in it.  

L.M. Montgomery

You can never plan the future by the past.  

Edmund Burke

 I have seen the future and it is very much like the present - only longer.  

Kehlog Albran

I know not what the future holds, but I know who holds the future.  

Author Unknown

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.  

Voltaire

A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.  

Eric Hoffer

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.  

Ruth Benedict

I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.  

Arthur Wing Pinero

 We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there. 

Charles F. Kettering

Quotations About Freedom

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. 

Simone de Beauvoir

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. 

Adlai Stevenson

 It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.  

Author unknown

 We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls.  

Robert J. McCracken

Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.  

Jeffrey Borenstein

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have. 

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Freedom is not enough.  

Lyndon B. Johnson

Liberty has never come from the government.  Liberty has always come from the subjects of it.  The history of liberty is a history of resistance. 

Woodrow Wilson

Let freedom never perish in your hands.  

Joseph Addison

Who speaks of liberty while the human mind is in chains?  

Francis Wright, 1828

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.  

George Washington

15 Short Quotes About Food

As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices:  take it or leave it.  

Buddy Hackett

The bagel, an unsweetened doughnut with rigor mortis.  

Beatrice & Ira Freeman

The belly rules the mind.  

Spanish Proverb

My favorite animal is steak. 

Fran Lebowitz

When baking, follow directions.  When cooking, go by your own taste.  

Laiko Bahrs

A bagel is a doughnut with the sin removed.  

George Rosenbaum

Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.  

Henry IV of France

In Mexico we have a word for sushi:  bait.  

José Simons

A nickel will get you on the subway, but garlic will get you a seat.

Old New York Proverb

The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live. 

Confucius

Worries go down better with soup.  

Jewish Proverb

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.  

Fran Lebowitz

Dyspepsia is the remorse of a guilty stomach.  

A. Kerr

Sleep 'til you're hungry, eat 'til you're sleepy. 

Author Unknown

Chowder breathes reassurance.  It steams consolation.  

Clementine Paddleford

Motivational Quotes About Football

Most football players are temperamental.  That's 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental.  

Doug Plank

You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four.  

Dan Birdwell

Football combines the two worst things about America:  it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.  

George F. Will

Pro football is like nuclear warfare.  There are no winners, only survivors. 

Frank Gifford

You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four.  

Dan Birdwell

Football combines the two worst things about America:  it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.  

George F. Will

Pro football is like nuclear warfare.  There are no winners, only survivors.  

Frank Gifford

Baseball players are smarter than football players.  How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?  

Jim Bouton

One of the great disappointments of a football game is that the cheerleaders never seem to get injured.  

Author Unknown

Football is not a contact sport.  It's a collision sport.  Dancing is a good example of a contact sport.  

Duffy Daugherty

The reason women don't play football is because eleven of them would never wear the same outfit in public. 

Phyllis Diller

College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.  

Elbert Hubbard

Speed is not your fastest, but your slowest man.  No back can run faster than his interference.  

Jock Sutherland

Top 10 Quotations About Flirtation

The coquets of both sexes are self-lovers, and that is a love no other whatever can dispossess.  

John Gay

Coquetry is the essential characteristic, and the prevalent humor of women; but they do not all practice it, because the coquetry of some is restrained by fear or by reason.  

François Duc de la Rochefoucauld

Women know not the whole of their coquetry. 

François Duc de la Rochefoucauld

Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.  

Mignon McLaughlin

If you're a gifted flirt, talking about the price of eggs will do as well as any other subject.  

Mignon McLaughlin

To avoid mistakes and regrets, always consult your wife before engaging in a flirtation.  

E.W. Howe

Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her - when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?  

Helen Rowland

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. 

Charles Reade

The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry.  

François Duc de la Rochefoucauld

Flirtation:  attention without intention. 

Max O'Rell