There are no friends at cards or world politics.

A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.

A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.

Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.

The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better - it is just turning around as usual.

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

An appeal is when you ask one court to show it's contempt for another court.

The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.

It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.

The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.

Don't jump on a man unless he is down.

Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.

Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.

Trust everybody, but cut the cards.

There ain't any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare.

There are no friends at cards or world politics.

An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.

I wonder why you can always read a doctors bill and you can never read his prescription.

Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

I wondher why ye can always read a doctors bill an ye niver can read his purscription.

The only good husbands stay bachelors Theyre too considerate to get married.

Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed by the facts.

If Christian scientists had more science and doctors more Christianity, it wouldn't make any difference which you called in - if you had a good nurse.

The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here.

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.

You can always make a film somehow. You can beg, borrow, steal the equipment, use credit cards, use your friends' goodwill, wheedle your way into this or that situation. The real problem is, how do you get people to see it once it is made?

I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, 'Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here.'

Sometimes a 3-1 favorite loses. That's why they call it gambling, and that's why they keep flipping over the cards.

Google's not a real company. It's a house of cards.

If I'm playing cards for pennies, I want to win.

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.

Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me.

Several times we were stranded in strange places without any money and with our credit cards cancelled - trapped in a hotel that we couldn't check out of because we had no money to check out.

Identity theft involving these cards is a growing form of white collar crime, facilitating illegal immigration, banking and accounting fraud, tax evasion, and other nefarious activities.

You know, it was just another presentation of my work, and a funny one, because the cards are quite different from the normal Tarot deck, no?

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Social Security Number Cards by themselves were never intended to be personal identity documents because they cannot confirm that a person presenting a card is actually the person whose name appears on the card.

You take the cards you're dealt. I'm now ferociously healthy in body and mind. You couldn't pay me to go near a psychiatrist again. Stopping seeing them was my first step to getting well.

If I play my cards right, I could bring network wrestling back to TV. Unfortunately, to most people, wrestling is a laughingstock. But fortunately, I'm reaching people who otherwise wouldn't watch it.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

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.

The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs.

The way the credit cards were made in the '80s to be a people's form of capitalism and be able to make it so that you could get a loan that you would have been denied previous, now that's the way stocks are.

In these negotiations we are not a helpless object, although great world powers are involved. We play an active role and try to influence our destiny; we have our own trump cards and we use them.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

Consular cards were not designed to be identification and no treaty recognizes them as such. Legal travelers, visitors and long-term residents carried passports, visas or green cards for that purpose.