Blackie Sherrod famous quotes

If you bet on a horse, that's gambling. If you bet you can make three spades, that's entertainment. If you bet cotton will go up three points, that's business. See the difference?
-- Blackie Sherrod

#Horse #Gambling #Differences

He has everything a boxer needs except speed, stamina, a punch, and ability to take punishment. In other words, he owns a pair of shorts.
-- Blackie Sherrod

#Punishment #Boxing #Needs

History must repeat itself because we pay such little attention to it the first time.
-- Blackie Sherrod

#Historical #Attention #Littles

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

I was one of the many horses pulling the wagon and couldn't escape left or right because of the will of the driver.

Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25 to 100 per cent.

Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.

Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.

If all our political and intellectual elite offers by way of a national culture is "pop music, gambling, fashionable clothes or television," then we can neither mount a convincing intellectual defense against our enemies, nor hope to integrate intelligent, inquiring, and unfulfilled Muslim youths young men principally, of course to our way of life.

The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.

If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.

All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.

I do believe that I deserve what I have. I don't think I'm entitled to it. That's a big difference.