Gambling famous quotes
04-01-2025
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Suspense is torture ... but delightful--or there'd be no gambling in the world.
-- Ada Leverson -
Defeat in itself was part and parcel of the great gambling game of politics. A man who could not accept it and try again was not of the stuff of which leaders are made.
-- Agnes Sligh Turnbull -
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.
-- Agnes Smedley -
Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.
-- Al Alvarez -
The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.
-- Al Alvarez -
In short, they were gambling on their luck, and luck is not to be coerced.
-- Albert Camus -
If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.
-- Alex Trebek -
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
-- Alfred Hitchcock -
A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
-- Alfred Hitchcock -
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
-- Alfred Hitchcock -
As words are not the things we speak about, and structure is the only link between them, structure becomes the only content of knowledge. If we gamble on verbal structures that have no observable empirical structures, such gambling can never give us any structural information about the world. Therefore such verbal structures are structurally obsolete, and if we believe in them, they induce delusions or other semantic disturbances.
-- Alfred Korzybski -
And it´s so different for a lot of people I´ve known. One partner doesn´t love the other enough to stop drinking, or gambling, or running around with other women. One is the giver and one is the taker. The giver wishes the taker would stop.
-- Alma Katsu -
I never go looking for a sucker. I look for a Champion and make a sucker of of him.
-- Amarillo Slim -
Dice have their laws, which the courts of justice cannot undo.
-- Ambrose -
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.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.
-- Andy Warhol -
Greyhound racing is a self-regulating gambling business that depends on the uncontrolled breeding and unaccountable disappearance of thousands of dogs every year. That is a situation that is unacceptable and indefensible
-- Annette Crosbie -
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.
-- Anthony Daniels -
The world is more than a game of cards. History is more than a record of gambling operations.
-- Arthur Twining Hadley -
I like gambling on stuff that you don't know anything about. That's when it's exciting.
-- Artie Lange -
At the Mirage Sportsbook, you can get a line on 2 kid playing wiffleball in the backyard in Minnesota
-- Artie Lange -
I'm the type of guy where one thing leads to another and eventually it gets awful. If I put a $5 bet on a roulette table tonight at 10 o'clock, by tomorrow at noon I would be running guns to Cuba.
-- Artie Lange -
The gambling reasoner is incorrigible; if he would but take to the squaring of the circle, what a load of misery would be saved.
-- Augustus De Morgan -
You don't gamble to win. You gamble so you can gamble the next day.
-- Bert Ambrose -
All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling.
-- Bill Nighy -
Las Vegas is a major family destination. Nevada casinos have become American family values now. It's considered just fine to go into one of these windowless scary gambling-malls, drink yourself silly, lose your ***** at roulette, and then go ogle showgirls with breast implants. Republicans do this now. Working-class folks do it in polyester stretch pants. It's normal.
-- Bruce Sterling -
No dog can go as fast as the money you bet on him.
-- Bud Flanagan -
Someone is going to figure out how to make this work and when they do, all the anti-gambling, over-regulating authoritarian governments will be exposed as emperors without clothes. It might not be obvious that this is even happening at first, since these systems are by definition stealthy affairs.
-- Calvin Ayre -
Suckers have no business with money anyway.
-- Canada Bill Jones -
It is morally wrong to allow suckers to keep their money.
-- Canada Bill Jones -
If, instead of playing the horses, an individual chooses to play the market, that is his own affair. Only he must understand that speculating in stocks is gambling, not investing.
-- Catherine Crook de Camp -
It's been a difficult thing because some great opportunities have come and I've just been holding my breath and praying... I'm basically gambling hoping something will come along this season and if not, I don't know what the future holds.
-- Charisma Carpenter -
There is not a single truth of science upon which we ought to bet more than about a million of millions to one.
-- Charles Sanders Peirce -
I am best described as just a guy with a very large bump of curiosity and a gambling instinct.
-- Clarence Birdseye -
Go around asking a lot of dam fool questions and taking chances. Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only by gambling can we take advantage of them.
-- Clarence Birdseye -
If you mind losing more than you enjoy winning, don't bet.
-- Clement Freud -
I came to the conclusion long ago that all life is six to five against.
-- Damon Runyon -
Yes, prudently invested contributions to the Social Security fund may bring greater dividends, but those contributions would also face a greater risk. It would be like gambling. We should not gamble with the investments and the future of the citizens of this land.
-- Daniel Inouye -
A race track is a place where windows clean people.
-- Danny Thomas -
As far as the gambling debts on there, not one cent was any type of sports betting. It's just something obviously I'm not proud of because it drags a lot of other people into this than I'd want. It's something I'm continuing to deal with.
-- Darren McCarty -
Statistics prove that teenage Internet gambling is the fastest growing addiction of the day,akin to drug and alcohol abuse in the 1930s, ...It's pernicious, it's evil, it's certainly one that feeds on those who are the weakest members of society and...that's the young and the poor.
-- David Robertson -
Nearly everything that was fun, of course, was also a little dangerous: riding roller coasters, skydiving, gambling, sex.
-- Dean Koontz -
When your opponent's sittin' there holdin' all the aces, there's only one thing to do: kick over the table.
-- Dean Martin -
Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.
-- Dennis Quaid -
We are already too dependent on gambling revenue. If we continue, we will soon be owned by them.
-- Donald L. Carcieri -
I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family.
-- Douglas William Jerrold -
We never talk about gambling around my house.
-- Doyle Brunson -
Gambling is a principle inherent in human nature.
-- Edmund Burke -
Everything makes me nervous - except making films.
-- Elizabeth Taylor -
Even though I had a lucrative contract with MGM, I had a husband who was drinking and gambling our money away faster than I could make it.
-- Esther Williams -
as long as there is a lottery, we the people of the United States must believe in getting something for nothing.
-- Fay Faron -
Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.
-- Federico Fellini -
Everyone except gamblers knows that gambling never pays. ... Losing, like winning, only increased his determination to play.
-- Firoozeh Dumas -
But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.
-- Fisher Stevens -
I wanted to do an episode about Chuck having a gambling problem. I wanted to portray my addiction on the show. But I think it's a little edgy for Saturday night.
-- Fisher Stevens -
If thy desire to raise thy fortunes encourage thy delights to the casts of fortune, be wise betimes, lest thou repent too late; what thou gettest, thou gainest by abused providence; what thou losest, thou losest by abused patience; what thou winnest is prodigally spent; what thou losest is prodigally lost; it is an evil trade that prodigally drives; and a bad voyage where the pilot is blind.
-- Francis Quarles -
Whisky, gambling and Ferraris are better than housework.
-- Francoise Sagan -
They are the new breed of slot machine-colorful, fancy, exciting, wonderful...and deadly.
-- Frank Scoblete -
I gamble with one foot pointed toward the door.
-- Frank Scoblete -
Scobe's Fifth Law: All dealers wish they were doing something other than dealing. All dealers have plans to get out of dealing. Ten years later they have different plans to get out of dealing.
-- Frank Scoblete -
Scobe's Eighth Law: The moron will enter the single deck game when the count is sky high and the dealer is deciding whether or not to shuffle. The morons's entrance will convince the dealer that it's time to shuffle. You will now face a new deck with your biggest bet out and the pit boss watching closely.
-- Frank Scoblete -
Scobe's Tenth Law: In all endeavors, in all aspects of life, there are more horses ***** than horses!
-- Frank Scoblete -
For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established some claim to being considered a learned man.
-- Frederic Farrar -
If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with big technology, either to push it forward or to stop it, is gambling in human lives.
-- Freeman Dyson -
Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky -
A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky -
If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
Part of the loot went for gambling, part for horses, and part for women. The rest I spent foolishly.
-- George Raft -
You shouldn't have any betting in the locker room at all, whether it's baseball or it's horses. You can't beat the horses. You can't beat any kind of gambling because they have the odds.
-- George Steinbrenner -
There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.
-- Georges Pompidou -
There are three ways to spoil a public man: women, gambling, and listening to experts. The first is the pleasantest, the second is the fastest, but the third is the most certain.
-- Georges Pompidou -
Two-up is Australia's very own way of parting a fool and his money.
-- Germaine Greer -
The greatest advantage in gambling lies in not playing at all.
-- Gerolamo Cardano -
Instead of gambling on the eternal impossibility of the revolution and on the fascist return of a war-machine in general, why not think that a new type of revolution is in the course of becoming possible, and that all kinds of mutating, living machines conduct wars, are combined and trace out a plane of consistance which undermines the plane of organization of the World and the States?
-- Gilles Deleuze -
Gambling undermines the moral fiber of society.
-- Gordon B. Hinckley -
Footballers are an easy target. They are offered big lines of credit. Every sport is vulnerable; its such a big gambling industry, and there are problems with syndicates in other countries.
-- Gordon Taylor -
It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
-- H. L. Mencken -
The Church has been and now is unalterably opposed to gambling in any form whatever. It is opposed to any game of chance, occupation, or so-called business, which takes money from the person who may be possessed of it without giving value received in return. It is opposed to all practices the tendency of which is to encourage the spirit of reckless speculation, and particularly to that which tends to degrade or weaken the high moral standard which the members of the Church, and our community at large, have always maintained
-- Heber J. Grant -
I bet on a horse at ten-to-one. It didn't come in until half-past five.
-- Henny Youngman -
Gaming is a vice the more dangerous as it is deceitful; and, contrary to every other species of luxury, flatters its votaries with the hopes of increasing their wealth; so that avarice itself is so far from securing us against its temptations that it often betrays the more thoughtless and giddy part of mankind into them.
-- Henry Fielding -
A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
To play billiards well is the sign of a misspent youth.
-- Herbert Spencer -
The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
-- Heywood Hale Broun -
Curst is the wretch enslaved to such a vice, Who ventures life and soul upon the dice.
-- Horace -
There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother's milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won't be any winners.
-- Hunter S. Thompson -
I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.
-- Hunter S. Thompson -
But I am in the gambling business, for good or ill; it is the business I have chosen, and the only governing rule that we all recognize is: always sit close to an exit and never trust a man who doesn't sweat.
-- Hunter S. Thompson -
Bond didn't defend the practice. He simply maintained that the more effort and ingenuity you put into gambling, the more you took out.
-- Ian Fleming -
At gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck.
-- Ian Fleming -
The only business in the world bigger than gambling is religion...but gambling is not nearly so corrupt.
-- J.R. Miller -
I gambled at the crap table all night and finally lost $8, but during that time the house gave me four drinks and two cigars, so it was still a lot cheaper than renting a room.
-- Jack Benny -
My advice to the unborn is, don't be born with a gambling instinct unless you have a good sense of probabilities.
-- Jack Dreyfus -
...in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness -- faith in a system; and this made his damnation certain.
-- Jack London -
Didn't I warn you-Huh-Didn't I tell you one of em was going to win!?? So now, what do we do?
-- Jack Norris -
Crime is based upon need, making money. Â People sell drugs to make money. Â But if everybody is cared for, they don't sell drugs and if there's no money you can't sell drugs even if you wanted to. Â There'd be no such thing as gambling, prostitution, or selling out, or paying off a senator or a governor. Â There are no senators, there are no governors so you can't pay them off. Â If you take away the basis or the condition that generate abhorrent behavior, you don't have abhorrent behavior.
-- Jacque Fresco -
My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow money from my fellow workmen to settle my room rent and pay for my meals.
-- James Weldon Johnson -
casino owners spoke more loudly than any of the other kings of industry to defend their contribution to society. They could speak more loudly because theirs was the purest activity of civilized man. They had transcended the need for a product. They could maintain and advance life with machines that made nothing but money.
-- Jane Rule
