Quotes About Wager

What is life if not a gamble?

Getting life insurance is like making a bet you can't win. If you live, you don't get the money. If you die, you don't get to enjoy the money.

Ahí está la gracia, en jugársela con lo que hay… ¿Qué mexicano no ha puesto en su vida un peso al albur?

Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.

Als je zo doorgaat, zul je uiteindelijk nog verliefd op me worden.' 'Dat nooit, Ricardito. Daar wil ik alles om verwedden.

I just wanted to see if you traitors would dare to face me," Galdran said, his caustic voice making me feel sick inside. Sick--and angry. The Marquis bowed low over his horse's withers, every line of his body indicative of irony. Galdran's face flushed dark purple. "I confess," Shevraeth drawled, "we had a small wager on whether you would have the courage to face us.

gambling, the cheapest of all luxuries.

Pascal had formulated a famous wager in favor of the existence of God: If you bet there is no God and you are wrong, a wrathful deity is likely to condemn your eternal soul to hellfire; but if you gamble that there is a God and there is not, your consciousness will cease to exist upon your death and you will never know that you were wrong.

I can't remember, I wish I could remember the first time I bet on baseball.

Smiley always came out a winner on that pup, till he bet on a dog once that didn't have no rear legs, because they'd been sawed off in a circular saw accident. When the fight had gone along far

Nie ma nic dziwnego w tym, ?e obserwujemy systematyczne redukowanie czasu snu, je?li wzi?? pod uwag?, o jak? ekonomiczn? stawk? toczy si? gra.

I think it's great fun sometimes when I am playing golf, just to give it a little uch, is to bet the other guy five bucks a hole or something like that.

Let us weigh the gain and loss,"' he quoted, '"in wagering that God is, let us estimate these two chances. If you gain, you gain all; if you lose you lose nothing.

The second-worst thing in the world is betting on a golf game and losing. The worst is not betting at all.

Of course I gamble, to make the games interesting. But five hundred dollars a game, tops. Or sometimes a thousand. No heart attack bets.

Oh, I say, someone said enthusiastically, do I smell a wager?

Pascal's Wager says that given the choice, even if the odds for success are slim, it is better for her to take the risk: there is nothing for her to lose and a lot for her to gain.

To marry a woman you love and who loves you is to lay a wager with her as to who will stop loving the other first.

if gambling is exciting, you're doing it wrong.

Te apuesto a que soy más infeliz que tú. ¿Doble o nada?

We bring our chips to the table and gamble for infinitely high stakes. We are like children who play for beans without knowing that each one of them contains the potential for the marvels of blossoms and May.

Racetracks seem to reward innocence. If babies were permitted to wager, they'd ultimately win so much money that management everywhere would bar them. NO BABIES ALLOWED, says a big sign at Hialeah. At Belmont Park, it reads, BEAT IT, BABIES.

What is life if not a gamble?

"God is, or He is not." But to which side shall we incline? Reason can decide nothing here. There is an infinite chaos which separated us. A game is being played at the extremity of this infinite distance where heads or tails will turn up. What will you wager?… If you win, you win everything; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation that He is.