Lansky Meyer Quotes & Sayings

A love letter is to be savored; a love email ... is to be forwarded to all your friends, and probably laughed at. — Erin McKean

Always overpay your taxes.That way you'll get a refund. — Meyer Lansky

All you have to do is recognize an opportunity. — Meyer Lansky

So Meyer Lansky was Hyman Roth? Was Marlon Brando Frank Costello? The confusion was compounded when quite serious newspapers started incorporating Godfather comparisons into their reporting on organized crime. — Robert Lacey

It is no good thinking about how life will get better once you have a new television or a new job. You must stop hoping for change. You must simply be it. — Rachel Joyce

Don't lie,Tell one lie,then you gotta tell another lie to compound on the first. — Meyer Lansky

A newspaper man wrote an article that I had 300 million dollars, well, I wish I had a million dollars — Meyer Lansky

Was it last month or last year
that the ambulance ran like a hearse
with its siren blowing on suicide -
Dinn, dinn, dinn! -
a noon whistle that kept insisting on life
all the way through the traffic lights?

I have come back
but disorder is not what it was.
I have lost the trick of it!
The innocence of it!
That fellow-patient in his stovepipe hat
with his fiery joke, his manic smile -
even he seems blurred, small and pale.
I have come back,
recommitted,
fastened to the wall like a bathroom plunger,
held like a prisoner
who was so poor
he fell in love with jail. — Anne Sexton

All pro sports, as well as the NCAA, should thank God every day we have sports betting here ... We have the only agency in the world that regulates the honesty of games. — Meyer Lansky

Power is strength and the ability to see yourself through your own eyes and not through the eyes of another. It is being able to place a cicle of power at your own feet and not take power from someone else's circle. — Lynn Andrews

We wrote our reports and sent them off to Dr Bairstow, who presented himself punctually at 0930 every morning to stare at us. It was beyond his nature to smile and encourage, so we could only assume he was there to intimidate any lingering — Jodi Taylor

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination. — Carl Von Clausewitz

A human being is a real artist and a creative in any field, not a programmed robot in some factory. — Shawn Lukas

In the intervals between battles, the Warrior rests. — Paulo Coelho

A mattoid is a miscreant who seeks to elevate himself by destroying society. Examples include the Rothschilds, David Rockefeller, Franklin Roosevelt, Meyer Lansky, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Leo Tolstoy, Alexander Hamilton, and Josef Stalin. Often mattoids are of high intelligence, tainted geniuses, despite their flawed character and lack of any morality. — Oliver Cromwell

I understand that your brain is large and perpetually at war with itself — Chris Cleave

Don't worry,don't worry.Look at the Astors and the Vanderbilts,all those big society people.They were the worst thieves-and now look at them.It's just a matter of time. — Meyer Lansky

Love - this is the essence of life. But you will not give your life to another. — Ruslana Korshunova