Quote of the Day
Authors Categories Blog Quote Maker Videos
 

Tom Stoppard Quotes: Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.
         

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.


Tom Stoppard
Check all other quotes by Tom Stoppard

Want to display this quote image on your website or blog? Simply copy and paste the below code on your website/blog.

Embed:

Format of this image is jpg. The width and height of image are 1200 and 630, repectively. This image is available for free to download.





Citation

Use the citation below to add this quote to your bibliography:


Styles:

×

MLA Style Citation


"Tom Stoppard Quotes." Quoteslyfe.com, 2024. Sun. 03 Nov. 2024. <https://www.quoteslyfe.com/quote/Life-is-a-gamble-at-terrible-odds-1118962>.





Check out


Other quotes of Tom Stoppard


Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.



Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.



If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.



Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.



It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.



A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.



To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.



If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.



Give us this day our daily mask.

Give us this day our daily mask.



Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.





Other quotes you may like


Audrey had an angelic quality about her. She didn't act like she was better than everyone, she just had a presence, an energy, a sort of light coming from within her that was overwhelming.

Audrey had an angelic quality about her. She didn't act like she was better than everyone, she just had a presence, an energy, a sort of light coming from within her that was overwhelming.



You can get over a million dollars worth of life insurance in case you die, but only eight to ten bucks and hour to live

You can get over a million dollars worth of life insurance in case you die, but only eight to ten bucks and hour to live



The Pleiadians are opening an energetic timeline for the very first time in any seminar, allowing you to enter the timeline where all experience occurs, because everything exists in one moment.

The Pleiadians are opening an energetic timeline for the very first time in any seminar, allowing you to enter the timeline where all experience occurs, because everything exists in one moment.



If we all helped one person, wouldn't the world be an unbelievable place?

If we all helped one person, wouldn't the world be an unbelievable place?



The mind that is cheerful in its present state, will be averse to all solicitude as to the future, and will meet the bitter occurrences of life with a placid smile.

The mind that is cheerful in its present state, will be averse to all solicitude as to the future, and will meet the bitter occurrences of life with a placid smile.



If you've never met a Navy SEAL and you ran into one at a bar, you probably still wouldn't know he's a Navy SEAL.

If you've never met a Navy SEAL and you ran into one at a bar, you probably still wouldn't know he's a Navy SEAL.



I've never been with an uncircumcised guy.

I've never been with an uncircumcised guy.


guy


God is a God who has not given up on His people. If He wanted to give up, He would have given up back in the Garden of Eden.

God is a God who has not given up on His people. If He wanted to give up, He would have given up back in the Garden of Eden.



What you believe, you can achieve.

What you believe, you can achieve.



The only thing worse than quoting me, is not quoting me

The only thing worse than quoting me, is not quoting me




Quote Description


This page presents the quote "Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.". Author of this quote is Tom Stoppard. This quote is about gambling, life, gamble, life is, terrible, odds,.