Famous quotes containing the word bet:
“... But lets forgive him.
Weve had a share in one night of his life.
Whatll you bet he ever calls again?”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
“Peter: Ill bet there isnt a good piggy-back rider in your whole family. I never knew a rich man yet who could piggy-back ride.
Ellie: Youre prejudiced.
Peter: You show me a good piggy-backer and Ill show you a real human. Now you take Abraham Lincoln, for instance. A natural piggy-backer.”
—Robert Riskin (18971955)
“I see that every man that went in had his pockets bulging, or something muffled up under his coatand I see it warnt no perfumery either, not by a long sight. I smelt sickly eggs by the barrel, and rotten cabbages, and such things; and if I know the signs of a dead cat being around, and I bet I do, there was sixty-four of them went in. I shoved in there for a minute, but it was too various for me, I couldnt stand it.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)