Top 17 Great Gambling Quotes
#1. Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of 'speculation'; but which ought to be called Gambling.
William Cobbett
#2. Our whole Depression was brought on by gambling, not in the stock market alone but in expanding and borrowing and going in debt ... all just to make some easy money quick.
Will Rogers
#3. All writers are manipulative liars.
Jack O. Savage, The Poet
Hunter S. Jones
#4. They had stumbled either upon a serious flaw in modern financial markets or into a great gambling run. Characteristically, they were not sure which it was. As Charlie pointed out, It's really hard to know when you're lucky and when you're smart.
Michael Lewis
#5. Football and gambling - two great American addictions working together. What could possibly go wrong?
Froma Harrop
#6. 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
#7. The exercises I wholly condemn are dicing and carding, especially if you play for any great sum of money, or spend any time in them, or use to come to meetings in dicing-houses, where cheaters meet and cozen young gentlemen out of all their money.
Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert Of Cherbury
#8. Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
Nikolai Gogol
#9. There is nothing that will make you a Christian indeed, but a taste of the sweetness of Christ.
Samuel Rutherford
#10. This would have been a great game to watch if we didn't have any money on it.
Norm MacDonald
#11. It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods. If such a board actually exists it operates precisely like the board of a corporation that is losing money.
H.L. Mencken
#12. If you didn't have me to rake you over the coals now and then, there wouldn't be any fire in your life at all.
Joe Hill
#14. They sailed into Raguza and Hal said, as bold as brass, We've come to challenge Zavac and we plan to kick his -
John Flanagan
#15. 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
#16. ('Why did you have children?' Bertie asked, later in their lives. 'Was it just the biological imperative to breed?' 'That's why everyone has children,' Viola said. 'They just dress it up as something more sentimental.') Viola
Kate Atkinson
#17. 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
