Cards Quotes

Google's not a real company. It's a house of cards. (Steve Ballmer)
Trust everybody, but cut the cards. View quote
Finley Peter Dunne
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards. View quote
Oscar Wilde
I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand. View quote
Jonathan Swift
If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards. View quote
Robert Orben
I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture. View quote
Susan Orlean
Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died. View quote
Steven Wright
Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots! View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well. View quote
Jack London
Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own. (Nelson Algren)
We have now seen that there is no particle of evidence for the Egyptian origin of Tarot cards. View quote
A. E. Waite
Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will. View quote
Jawaharlal Nehru
A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress. View quote
Henry Fielding
In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table. View quote
H. G. Wells
Of the nine red cards this season we probably deserved half of them. View quote
Arsène Wenger
How pleasant it is to respect people! When I see books, I am not concerned with how the authors loved or played cards; I see only their marvelous works. View quote
Anton Chekhov
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game. View quote
Voltaire
You got dealt some crappy cards. But you're the one who has to decide how to play them. View quote
Diane Chamberlain
When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again. View quote
Camilo Jose Cela
Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential. (Les Brown)
Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the Federal entitlement programs, and the mismanagement of the Federal bureaucracy. View quote
Chris Chocola
I never give my real self. I have a hundred sides, and I turn first one way and then the other. I am playing a deep game. I have a number of strong cards up my sleeve. I have never been myself, excepting to two friends. View quote
Mary MacLane
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
Love interest nearly always weakens a mystery because it introduces a type of suspense that is antagonistic to the detective's struggle to solve the problem. It stacks the cards, and in nine cases out of ten, it eliminates at least two useful suspects. The only effective love interest is that which creates a personal hazard for the detective - but which, at the same time, you instinctively feel to be a mere episode. A really good detective never gets married. View quote
Raymond Chandler