Sucker Quotes

• If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

  Paul Newman

  Gambling, Games, Looks

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• Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication, and courage. But if we don't practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us --- and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who comes along.

  Carl Sagan

  Atheist, Ocean, Dedication

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• P.T. Barnum said a sucker is born every minute, but his estimate was laughably low.

  Jonathan Gruber

  Born, Lows, Minutes

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• Never give a sucker an even break.

  W. C. Fields

  Drinking, Wine, Break Even

  Quoted in Boston Daily Globe, 9 Sept. 1923.

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• Lies were only as strong as the suckers that believed them.

  Jodi Picoult

  Strong, Lying

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• I'm always a sucker for a love story.

  Sofia Coppola

  Stories, Love Story

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Money, Scams

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• If you look around the table and you can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

  Mark Van Doren

  Gambling, Looks, Tables

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• A lie took two parties - the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it.

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Party, Believe

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Salem Falls”, p.337, Simon and Schuster

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• If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

  Malcolm X

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• What's the difference between a politician and a catfish? One is a wide-mouthed, bottom-feeding, slime sucker - and the other is a fish.

  Preston Manning

  Differences, Slime, Politician

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• Worry is to joy what a Hoover vacuum cleaner is to dirt: might as well attach your heart to a happiness-sucker and flip the switch.

  Max Lucado

  Heart, Worry, Joy

  Max Lucado (2012). “Great Day Every Day: Navigating Life's Challenges with Promise and Purpose”, p.45, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Why don't I drink from a straw? Because straws are for suckers.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Drinking, President, Politician

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• Suckers try to win arguments, nonsuckers try to win.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Winning, Trying, Argument

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.518, Random House

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• You're not a sucker. You're just nice. You give people the benefit of the doubt.

  Sarah Dessen

  Nice, People, Giving

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.259, Penguin

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• These are all cases of proved or presumptive baloney. A deception arises, sometimes innocently but collaboratively, sometimes with cynical premeditation. Usually the victim is caught up in a powerful emotion -- wonder, fear, greed, grief. Credulous acceptance of baloney can cost you money; that's what P. T. Barnum meant when he said, 'There's a sucker born every minute.' But it can be much more dangerous than that, and when governments and societies lose the capacity for critical thinking, the results can be catastrophic -- however sympathetic we may be to those who have bought the baloney.

  Carl Sagan

  Powerful, Grief, Acceptance

  Carl Sagan (2011). “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.209, Ballantine Books

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• Never jump into a pile of leaves with a wet sucker.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Peanuts, Pumpkin, Wet

  "Fictional character: Linus van Pelt". "Peanuts" comic strip by Charles M. Schulz, November 15, 1957.

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• It's easy to slide into believing you're the hypnotist here, the mirage master, the smart cookie who knows what's real and how all the tricks are done. The fact is you're still just another slack-jawed mark in the audience. No matter how good you are, this world is always going to be better at this game. It's more cunning than you are, it's faster and it's a whole lot more ruthless. All you can do is try to keep up, know your weak spots and never stop expecting the sucker punch.

  Tana French

  Real, Smart, Believe

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• The sucker's trap is when you focus on what you know and what others don't know, rather than the reverse.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Focus, Traps, Reverse

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.55, Random House

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• A sucker don't ever catch on. A smart man don't ever sleep. He's got to keep ducking the traps.

  Johnny Moss

  Smart, Sleep, Men

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• One of the great pressures we're facing in journalism now is it's a lot cheaper to hire thumb suckers and pundits and have talk shows on the air than actually have bureaus and reporters

  Walter Isaacson

  Air, Thumbs, Pressure

  "Buying the War". "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. April 25, 2007.

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• Apple should pull the plug on the iPhone... What Apple risks here is its reputation as a hot company that can do no wrong. If it's smart it will call the iPhone a 'reference design' and pass it to some suckers to build with someone else's marketing budget. Then it can wash its hands of any marketplace failures... Otherwise I'd advise people to cover their eyes. You are not going to like what you'll see.

  John C. Dvorak

  Smart, Eye, Apples

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• What do you take me for? A fourteen karat sucker?

  Stanley Kubrick

  Take Me, Fourteen

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• I love romance. I'm a sucker for it. I love it so much. It's pathetic.

  Drew Barrymore

  Love, Valentines Day, Romance

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• Rise up, you suckers, and go out and do the work of Jesus!

  Tony Campolo

  Jesus, Work

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