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

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Money, Scams

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you ARE the sucker.

  Mike McDermott

  Half, Tables, Firsts

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• I'm a sucker where I love shifting tides.

  John Krasinski

  Tides, Shifting

  "John Krasinski Talks PROMISED LAND, Collaborating with Matt Damon, Getting Input from Aaron Sorkin, THE OFFICE, Developing His Own Series, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 3, 2013.

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• If you don't stand for something, you stand for nothing.

  Mel Thompson

  Meaningful, Courage, Integrity

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• There is no crime in the cynical American calendar more humiliating than to be a sucker.

  Max Lerner

  Cynical, Calendars, Crime

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