Pass Bet

Famous quotes containing the words pass bet, pass and/or bet:

    “Along the garden-wall the bees
    With hairy bellies pass between
    The staminate and pistillate,
    Blest office of the epicene.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “I learned from my two years’ experience that it would cost incredibly little trouble to obtain one’s necessary food, even in this latitude; that a man may use as simple a diet as the animals, and yet retain health and strength.... Yet men have come to such a pass that they frequently starve, not for want of necessaries, but for want of luxuries.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Daniel: I’m glad to know you.
    Jerry: How can you be glad to know me? I know how I’d feel if I were sitting with a girl and her husband walked in.
    Lucy: I’ll bet you do.”
    —Vina Delmar, U.S. novelist, playwright. Daniel (Ralph Bellamy)