Quotes About Cards

Britain is a textbook case of how growing inequality leads to economic crisis. The years before the crash were marked by a sharp rise in remortgaging and the growth of 0 percent balance transfer credit cards. By 2008 the UK had the highest ratio of household debt to GDP of any major economy.

A married couple that plays cards together is just a fight that hasn't started yet.

The fortune of his game had brought him fairies—but he had always known fairies were in the pack.

I had a terrible fight with my wife on New Year's Eve. She called me a procrastinator. So I finished addressing the Christmas cards and left.

Family planning experts are now recommending giving men vasectomy gift cards for the holidays. Talk about taking the jingle out of the bells.

Perhaps there is a reason that there is no fool piece on the chessboard. What action, a fool? What strategy, a fool? What use, a fool? Ah, but a fool resides in a deck of cards, a joker, sometimes two. Of no worth, of course. No real purpose. The appearance of a trump, but none of the power: Simply an instrument of chance. Only a dealer may give value to the joker.

It's not a game if you don't cheat, it's just two sods making a mess with fifty-two pieces of paper.

Of course she cheated. Don't be silly. Snow White spent half her growing years shuffling cards for no one. She can cut false and she can cut true, but she wasn't going to lose when it counted.

Each passenger was given a boarding card that was also a radio receiver, and all the announcements about particular shuttle or spaceship flights were made only to those passengers who had the corresponding receiver-cards.

POKER, n. A game said to be played with cards for some purpose to this lexicographer unknown.

Old card players never die, they just shuffle away.

She and my uncle were very sociable and would have a lot of people over at night to play cards or whatever. The high spot of those evenings was when we kids got dressed up to do a skit or something to amuse the guests. I loved it.

My roomate at 'Harvey' is this guy Morgan Spector, an actor in town, and I've taught him Hive and Fastrack. Others have played For the Win, but Cards Against Humanity has been the dressing room hit. We've had the understudies, even Jim Parsons playing it. Our dressing room is practically sponsored by Cards Against Humanity.

As a kid, my favorite adventures were to skip school and go into the sewage drains and talk to the turtles and open up packs of Topps Stadium Club baseball cards.

I was a street guy. I mean, I grew up in an Italian neighborhood with mob guys around. Where I grew up, you gambled, you shot dice, you played cards, you went to the track. So the mob to me was not strange, it was not like I was an F.B.I. agent from Salt Lake City.

Do you swim,girl? Yes. Shelby set down her cards. But I didn't bring a suit. There's a closetful in the bathhouse, Serena told her. You won't have any trouble finding one to fit. Really? She shot Alan a look. Isn't that handy? A closetful of suits. He gave her an easy smile. Didn't I mention it? A swim sounds good, he added as he dropped his hands to her shoulders. I've never seen Shelby in a bathing suit.

If you're goingto play cards, you should ask Burke to join you, Adelia put in. Then maybe Keeley, Erin and I can find something equally foolish to do with our evening. Good idea. More wine,Brian? Keeley lifted the bottle, cocked a brow. The purr in her voice was subtle, but he heard it. And suffered.

Men are like a deck of cards. You'll find the occasional king, but most are jacks.

They started inviting me into the Messina Club at Tenth and Tasker, which is a members-only joint where you get the best sausage and peppers you ever ate. You'd play cards there; just hang out without the public citizens being at the next table. It's still there, and it still has the best sausage and peppers in all of South Philly. A

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