Famous quotes containing the word bet:
“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)
“Daniel: Im glad to know you.
Jerry: How can you be glad to know me? I know how Id feel if I were sitting with a girl and her husband walked in.
Lucy: Ill bet you do.”
—Vina Delmar, U.S. novelist, playwright. Daniel (Ralph Bellamy)
“I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and Id bet I wouldnt lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste.”
—Berkeley Breathed (b. 1957)