Famous quotes containing the words odds and/or bet:
“However great a man’s fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear- headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged by the laws of chance—so many odds against one that to live will be more miserable than to die. His sense of mathematics is greater than his sense of survival.”
—Graham Greene (1904–1991)
“Devil: I’ll tell you what. You want to hedge your bet with me? Make eternity a little less ... hellish?
Amanda: What did you have in mind?
Devil: Did you see Rosemary’s Baby?”
—Blake Edwards (b. 1922)