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Cards Quotes


"I don't really believe in palm readers and crystal balls and tarot cards, but I respond to the need for them."


"A deck of cards is built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it, a lackey to those above it."


"You want 21 percent risk free? Pay off your credit cards."


"Everyone can get a little sloppy with cash and it's smart to notice. But what's squeezing you is the big stuff you ladle onto your credit cards."


"It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards."


"That's why I really don't play cards or gamble. Because I'd crack."


"We don't need a nation that has national identity cards."


"I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards."


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


"Credit card companies pay college students generously to stand outside dining halls, dorms, and academic buildings and encourage their fellow students to apply for credit cards."


"Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun."


"The one thing I missed was never having children. It just wasn't in the cards, I guess."


"Of the nine red cards this season we probably deserved half of them."


"What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table?"


"We have now seen that there is no particle of evidence for the Egyptian origin of Tarot cards."


"'Weary Willie' is very real to me. He is a man who has given up. The boat has gone and left him. The cards are stacked against him. He's content to make out with what he's got. He knows he'll go no further."


"You have to play the cards you are dealt and if it has made it harder, it doesn't matter, you still have to get the deal done."


"These smugglers, many of them present in trafficking through my State of Arizona, create false Social Security cards, false green cards, visas and a variety of other fraudulent documents as an essential part of their smuggling activities."


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


"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."


"I like to think I play rugby as it should be played - there are no yellow or red cards in my collection - but I cannot say I'm an angel."


"If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards."


"Consular cards are easily obtained with no proof of true identity and are easily forged."
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