Damon Runyon Famous Quotes



"One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to come up to you and show you a nice brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken, and this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the Jack of Spades jump out of the deck and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not bet this man, for as sure as you are standing there, you are going to end up with an earful of cider."


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My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
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Eugene V Debs

"He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist."
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
Douglas MacArthur

I'd rather go on hearing your lies than to go on living without you.
Elvis Presley

"A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth."
Aesop

"Whatever happened to that old-fashioned Grandpa If he still survives, he must be hiding in the small towns. You sure don't see him very often in the big city. The big-city Grandpa has gone big time. ... He is the life of every party, and out to prove he is just as young as he ever was. A grandchild who makes the mistake of calling him 'Gramps' is lucky if he isn't rewarded by a quick kick in the stomach."
Hal

"It is better, of cours, to know useless things than to know nothing."
Seneca

"Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable."
Amanda Heggs

Burnt Sienna. Thats the best thing that ever happened to Crayolas.
Ken Weaver