Horse Gambling Quotes

#1. It is true that the Puritans banned all recreation on Sundays and all games of chance, gambling, bear baiting, horse racing, and bowling in or around taverns at all times. They did so, not because they were opposed to fun, but because they judged these activities to be inherently harmful or immoral.

Leland Ryken

#2. Scobe's Tenth Law: In all endeavors, in all aspects of life, there are more horses asses than horses!

Frank Scoblete

#3. I tell ya, gambling never agreed with me. Last week I went to the track and they shot my horse with the opening gun.

Rodney Dangerfield

#4. Horse sense is the instinct that keeps horses from betting on men.

Josephine Tey

#5. I decided I didn't want to be a slave to any passion any more except for my work, i had too many passions - bridge, horses, gambling. I want to live a different kind of life, be with my family more because I didn't give them enough time.

Omar Sharif

#6. Think of horse races. People like to bet on the one with three legs and a wheeze.They don't bet on that one because they think it will win, but because they can see how very glorious it would be if it were to win

Natasha Pulley

#7. Along with my passion for horse breeding, I was a horse racing enthusiast ... In 1974 I was elected as a committee member and subsequently as a steward of the Turf Club. I had a burning desire to clean up the sport, which had always carried the stigma of gambling and manipulation.

Cyrus S. Poonawalla

#8. I bet on a horse at ten-to-one. It didn't come in until half-past five.

Henny Youngman

#9. I know a little bit about handicapping. If the horse has an IV, you want to stay - away from it.

Paula Poundstone

#10. Back horses or go down to Throgmorton Street and try to take it away from the Rothschilds, and I will applaud you as a shrewd and cautious financier. But to bet at golf is pure gambling.

P.G. Wodehouse

#11. 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

#12. Part of the loot went for gambling, part for horses, and part for women. The rest I spent foolishly.

George Raft