False hope is sometimes much worse and sometimes much better than no hope.
Don't leave it to the law of averages to make you break even.
Adventurers tend to prance about the ladder of success, fearing less the sensation of a great fall than the humility of hanging idle.
I have nothing against women. Some of my best wives were women.
After you do one thing, you've got one thing done.
Many gamblers think they're being singled out by fate as a target for cruel jokes. They feel they alone in all the universe are being tortured, experimented upon by some unknown force.