Genius Quotes by REBECCA PEPPER SINKLER-1509457309
The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius.
Genius Quotes by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL-1509443665
Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.
Genius Quotes by MAX BEERBOHM-1509428009
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.
Genius Quotes by PHILLIPS BROOKS-1509424929
Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power.
Genius Quotes by JOHN F. KENNEDY-1509381214
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
Genius Quotes by E.B. WHITE-1509379654
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
Genius Quotes by GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG-1509377182
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
Genius Quotes by AUTHOR UNKNOWN-1509371879
A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see - and hits it.
Genius Quotes by NAPOLEON BONAPARTE-1509331208
Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.
generations quotes by AUTHOR UNKNOWN-1509267430
There is nothing wrong with today's teenager that twenty years won't cure.
generations quotes by AUGUSTUS WILLIAM HARE AND JULIUS CHARLES HARE-1509252001
Some men so dislike the dust kicked up by the generation they belong to, that, being unable to pass, they lag behind it.
generations quotes by JANE HADDAM-1509216262
In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.
generations quotes by GEORGE BURNS-1509214631
It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
generations quotes by SUSAN SONTAG-1509212940
Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents' pots and pans, the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape. Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes. A featherweight portable museum.
generations quotes by CLARENCE DARROW-1509211449
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
generations quotes by LEWIS MUMFORD-1509210239
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
generations quotes by MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN-1509207780
When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that they've decided to allow themselves the same kind of behavior.
generations quotes by BENJAMIN DISRAELI-1509196813
A man who is not a Liberal at sixteen has no heart; a man who is not a Conservative at sixty has no head.
generations quotes by MILTON GREENBLATT-1509178222
First we are children to our parents, then parents to our children, then parents to our parents, then children to our children.
generations quotes by ADLAI STEVENSON-1509175425
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
generations quotes by JOHN J. WELSH-1509174125
The older generation thought nothing of getting up at five every morning - and the younger generation doesn't think much of it either.
generations quotes by FROM THE MOVIEFIGHT CLUB-1509169130
We're the middle children of history.... no purpose or place. We have no Great War, no Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives.
generations quotes by JOAN MCINTOSH-1509125314
They say genes skip generations. Maybe that's why grandparents find their grandchildren so likeable.
generations quotes by BERNARD ROSENBERG-1509121874
Generation Gap: A chasm, amorphously situated in time and space, that separates those who have grown up absurd from those who will, with luck, grow up absurd.
generations quotes by HOMER-1509119931
As is the generation of leaves, so is that of humanity. The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the live timber Burgeons with leaves again in the season of spring returning. So one generation of men will grow while another dies.
generations quotes by RAMSEY CLARK-1509115797
People who don't cherish their elderly have forgotten whence they came and whither they go.
generations quotes by IGOR STRAVINSKY-1509114580
It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
games quotes by GEORGE BERNARD SHAW-1509113145
Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time.
games quotes by KIMBERLY JONES-1509097525
I haven't had sex in eight months. To be honest, I now prefer to go bowling.
games quotes by LEMONY SNICKET-1509095833
An apocryphal story - the word "apocryphal" here means "obviously untrue" - tells of two people, long ago, who were very bored, and that instead of complaining about it they sat up all
games quotes by INDIAN PROVERB-1509094613
Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe.
games quotes by JOSEPH DE MAISTRE-1509092630
It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.
games quotes by AMBROSE BIERCE-1509089768
Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.
games quotes by STEPHEN SONDHEIM-1509088207
The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution.
games quotes by EDWARD FITZGERALD-1509084709
'Tis all a chequer board of nights and days,Where destiny with men for pieces plays;Hither and thither, and mates, and slays.
games quotes by WILLIAM COWPER-1509038304
With spots quadrangular of diamond form,Ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife,And spades, the emblems of untimely graves.
games quotes by HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN-1509035012
It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
games quotes by CLIVE JAMES-1509025927
Whoever called snooker "chess with balls" was rude, but right.
games quotes by DON CARTER-1509013358
One of the advantages bowling has over golf is that you seldom lose a bowling ball.
games quotes by A.A. MILNE-1509007376
It is impossible to win gracefully at chess. No man has yet said "Mate!" in a voice which failed to sound to his opponent bitter, boastful and malicious.
gambling quotes by AMBROSE BIERCE-1508951409
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
gambling quotes by W.C. FIELDS-1508950025
Horse sense is a good judgment which keeps horses from betting on people.
gambling quotes by RICHARD BLACKMORE-1508948545
Betting is the manure to which the enormous crop of horse-races and racehorse breeding in this and other countries is to a large extent due.
gambling quotes by AUTHOR UNKNOWN-1508946852
Games of chance are traps to catch school boy novies and gaping country squires, who begin with a guinea and end with a mortgage.
gambling quotes by AUTHOR UNKNOWN-1508940790
There is but one good throw upon the dice, which is, to throw them away.
gambling quotes by CHARLES LAMB-1508925689
A number of moralists condemn lotteries and refuse to see anything noble in the passion of the ordinary gambler. They judge gambling as some atheists judge religion, by its excesses.
gambling quotes by AUTHOR UNKNOWN-1508911102
A racehorse is an animal that can take several thousand people for a ride at the same time.
gambling quotes by DAN BENNETT-1508861239
One of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a spade and a package of garden seeds.
gambling quotes by HENNY YOUNGMAN-1508839502
I bet on a horse at ten-to-one. It didn't come in until half-past five.
gambling quotes by WILL ROGERS-1508831327
You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people.
gambling quotes by OWEN FELLTHAM-1508765937
By gaming we lose both our time and treasure - two things most precious to the life of man.
gambling quotes by VPPAPPY-1508653768
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.
gambling quotes by MARK TWAIN-1508652346
A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to us than the 99 which we had to work for, and the money won at Faro or in the stock market snuggles into our hearts in the same way.
gambling quotes by ALBERT EINSTEIN-1508650647
You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it.
gambling quotes by NICK DANDALOS-1508607815
The house doesn't beat the player. It just gives him the opportunity to beat himself.
gambling quotes by R.E. SHAY-1508606109
Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.
gambling quotes by CHARLES LAMB-1508604904
Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
gambling quotes by AUTHOR UNKNOWN-1508601007
In the case of an earthquake hitting Las Vegas, be sure to go straight to the Keno Lounge. Nothing ever gets hit there.
gambling quotes by JOE E. LEWIS-1508596168
I met with an accident on the way to the track; I arrived safely.
gambling quotes by WILLIAM BOLITHO-1508594751
A gambler is nothing but a man who makes his living out of hope.
gambling quotes by JEFFREY BERNARD-1508593148
In most betting shops you will see three windows marked "Bet Here," but only one window with the legend "Pay Out."
gambling quotes by ARTHUR S. REBER-1508590957
The typical gambler might not really understand the probabilistic nuances of the wheel or the dice, but such things seem a bit more tractable than, say, trying to raise a child in this lunatic society of ours.
gambling quotes by MARK TWAIN-1508579730
Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his oar I would have stayed.
gambling quotes by JACK YELTON-1508578169
There is a very easy way to return from a casino with a small fortune: go there with a large one.
gambling quotes by CHINESE PROVERB-1508576647
If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.
gambling quotes by HEYWOOD BROUN-1508571904
The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice is so pleasurable, that I assume it must be evil.
gambling quotes by THOMAS ROBERT DEWAR-1508569444
No wife can endure a gambling husband, unless he is a steady winner.
gambling quotes by GLORIA STEINEM-1508568063
Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the common-sensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.
gambling quotes by KIN HUBBARD-1508565589
The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.
gambling quotes by DAMON RUNYON-1508562638
The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.
gambling quotes by FRANZ ROSENTHAL-1508561038
The subject of gambling is all encompassing. It combines man's natural play instinct with his desire to know about his fate and his future.
gambling quotes by WILSON MIZNER-1508507102
Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing from something.
gambling quotes by GEORGE GORDON-1508403556
For most men (till by losing rendered sager)Will back their own opinions by a wager.
gambling quotes by VPPAPPY-1508257073
If you ain't just a little scared when you enter a casino, you are either very rich or you haven't studied the games enough.
future quotes by JIM BISHOP-1508236415
The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.
future quotes by ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL-1508235054
The course of life is unpredictable... no one can write his autobiography in advance.
future quotes by AUTHOR UNKNOWN-1508223260
I know not what the future holds, but I know who holds the future.
future quotes by KEHLOG ALBRAN-1508221510
I have seen the future and it is very much like the present - only longer.
future quotes by PAUL VALERY-1508137779
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
future quotes by JOHN SLADEK-1508071309
The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.
future quotes by ERIC HOFFER-1508061223
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.
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