Top 100 Quotes About Gambling
#1. Once you adopt a value-investment strategy, any other investment behavior starts to seem like gambling.
Seth Klarman
#2. Random intermittent positive reinforcement can be found in gambling... and bad relationships.
Jose N. Harris
#3. Gambling houses are temples where the most sordid and turbulent passions contend; there no spectator can be indifferent. A card or a small square of ivory interests more than the loss of an empire, or the ruin of an unoffending group of infants, and their nearest relatives.
Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann
#4. 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
#6. For a permanent solution to easing tension and soothe the rough waters of the world that cause people to go to drugs, drinking, gambling, pornography, overeating, or anything that will give them some temporary relief, you can't beat the support and encouragement of a friend.
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
#8. Granted, I could go out and lose everything (by) gambling and drinking, but there's no sense in denying it. It's in my blood.
John Daly
#9. Full of intrigue, tangled pasts, and raw emotions, [Gambling On A Secret by Sara Walter Ellwood] is guaranteed to keep you turning pages from start to finish and then wishing for one more chapter!
Carolyn Brown
#10. Suspense is torture ... but delightful
or there'd be no gambling in the world.
Ada Leverson
#11. The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.
Al Alvarez
#12. If I had been busted for drugs instead of gambling, I'd still be managing the Reds and baseball would be paying for my rehab.
Pete Rose
#13. 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
#14. You'd think as long as I was gambling with my soul, I would have thought to get Mab to throw in fifty bucks an hour plus expenses.
Jim Butcher
#15. The Chinese have always enjoyed gambling, and Macau is the only place in Greater China where gambling is legal. So I believe the government understands that there has to be a place for it.
Lui Che Woo
#16. The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dice box in hand, shaking the dice.
Denis Diderot
#17. Every conscious act requires risk. Every conscious act requires decision. Put these two facts together and you realize that the secret to life is not to avoid gambling but to gamble well.
Mike Caro
#18. How constantly in her triumph would she be able to forget all his vices, his debts, his gambling, his late hours, and his cruel treatment of herself! As
Anthony Trollope
#20. 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
#21. Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
Pope John XXIII
#22. My work is play. And I play when I design. I even looked it up in the dictionary, to make sure that I actually do that, and the definition of "play," number one, was "engaging in a childlike activity or endeavor," and number two was "gambling." And I realize I do both when I'm designing.
Paula Scher
#23. He's millions in debt. He hasn't stopped drinking and gambling since his father was assassinated. Brilliantly assassinated, Plagueis thought.
James Luceno
#24. Making money at gambling was like seeing ghosts: you never met someone who'd seen a ghost, only someone who knew someone who'd seen a ghost. You only met people who knew people who'd made a fortune at White's. Or on the racecourse.
Winston Graham
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. I am best described as just a guy with a very large bump of curiosity and a gambling instinct.
Clarence Birdseye
#28. But I also think that it does create a lot of revenue, but to me it's a temporary revenue stream because it's an industry that, if suddenly gambling started in Massachusetts, then a lot of our patrons who would gamble in New Hampshire if we had it, would disappear.
Craig Benson
#29. Obesity is the result of a loss of self-control. Indeed, loss of self-control might be said to be the defining social (or anti-social) characteristic of our age: public drunkenness, excessive gambling, promiscuity and common-or-garden rudeness are all examples of our collective loss of self-control.
Theodore Dalrymple
#30. Our investigation has found that, unlike traditional fantasy sports, daily fantasy sports companies are engaged in illegal gambling under New York law, causing the same kinds of social and economic harms as other forms of illegal gambling and misleading New York consumers.
Eric Schneiderman
#31. I've always played cards. I can't remember when there wasn't a gambling game going on somewhere, even if it was a craps game in a wheelbarrow on the backside of the racetrack.
Wilford Brimley
#32. Gambling makes boys selfish and cruel as well as men.
Thomas Hughes
#33. The only business in the world bigger than gambling is religion ... but gambling is not nearly so corrupt.
J.R. Miller
#34. A politician taking campaign money from gamblers in Nevada is like one taking campaign money from the auto people in Michigan. Gambling is our legal business.
Paul Laxalt
#35. The world over, give a guy money and it goes to drinking, gambling, and women. When you give a woman money, it goes to feeding, clothing, helping people.
Peter Buffett
#36. It was a place of sin, loose women, whiskey and gambling. It was no place for a good Presbyterian, and I did not long remain one.
Mark Twain
#37. If you're about to become a stepmother or are currently filling that role, you are gambling that the love you've found and the strength and wisdom that you've acquired will see you through.
Sue Patton Thoele
#39. Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences.
Vince Cable
#40. A poor way to repay them - gambling their sacrifice for a bag of magic tricks.
J.K. Rowling
#41. Norm MacDonald is here - one of the funniest people ever. Norm's got a giant gambling problem. He's dropped more coin in a casino than Michael J. Fox at a parking meter.
Greg Giraldo
#42. 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 William Farrar
#43. There is one type of gambling which should always be encouraged. It is betting on goodness. When a person has wronged you, be good to him. If he adds insult to injury, double the bet. And keep on doubling it. You will surely win!
J.P. Vaswani
#44. Best definition of "investing" is "gambling with the odds in your favor." The people on the short side of the subprime mortgage market had gambled with the odds in their favor. The people on the other side - the entire financial system, essentially - had gambled with the odds against them.
Michael Lewis
#45. I am afraid the church is trying to speak out on too many issues that really do not concern the church. There are certain issues we know to be wrong - racial injustice, crime, gambling, dishonesty, pornography. On these matters we must thunder forth as the prophets of God.
Billy Graham
#46. A weekend in Vegas without gambling and drinking is just like being a born-again Christian.
Artie Lange
#47. Well, games of chance and I are no strangers. This trading in papers . . . is it a bit like gambling?" "It's exactly like gambling, Prince Jalan.
Mark Lawrence
#48. All gambling is the telling of a fortune, but of a monstrously depleted fortune, empty of everything save one numerical circumstance, shorn of all such richness as a voyage across the water, a fair man that loves you, a dark woman that means you harm.
Rebecca West
#49. Gambling is legal and betting is legal, for what I bet.
Michael Jordan
#50. I don't think there's an improvised word in the movie. I hope not because I admire writing. Improvising is kind of gambling. It's just that you're standing up.
Bill Nighy
#51. There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.
Hunter S. Thompson
#52. The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother, and I call him Gamblor!
Homer
#53. Gambling has held human beings in thrall for millennia. It has been engaged in everywhere, from the dregs of society to the most respectable circles.
Peter L. Bernstein
#54. The next best thing to gambling and winning is gambling and losing.
Nick Dandolos
#55. 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
#56. Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
Henry Ward Beecher
#57. I don't see how you have the nerve to oppose this bill when you run the biggest gambling business in the world - gambling on the hereafter.
Loring M. Black Jr.
#58. Before we get any further, I want you to understand that this book will not help you quit smoking or control a gambling addiction. Mini habits are for good habits only - adding positive behaviors to your life
Stephen Guise
#59. 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
#60. Gambling is a fascinating sport. When you are winning, you are like a human hurricane, nothing can stand in your way. You defy the Gods, or do you? In fact you impress them, as Bukowski said. When you are losing, you are an insignificant gimp.
Robert Black
#61. 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
#62. I played golf with my friends, and then I started to play with the hustlers. And I learned a lot. I learned about golf; I learned about gambling. I learned about everything.
Donald Trump
#63. It was weird because my first couple stories had been so easy. Now it was like, the more you did it, the harder it became. But in another way, it was addicting. It was like gambling, every time you'd start another one you'd think this time I'm going to get it right ...
Blake Nelson
#64. The world is like a reverse casino. In a casino, if you gamble long enough, you're certainly going to lose. But in the real world, where the only thing you're gambling is, say, your time or your embarrassment, then the more stuff you do, the more you give luck a chance to find you.
Scott Adams
#65. I'm not a gambling-man. I have never bet a dollar in all my life.
John Forsythe
#66. achievement to create the first modern insurance fund, based on correct actuarial and financial principles, rather than mercantile gambling.
Niall Ferguson
#67. Gambling, beer and football filled the horizons of their minds.
George Orwell
#68. You know what's sad about this? Not the gambling, but the best way to reach college athletes is the Cartoon Network.
Jay Leno
#69. At gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck.
Ian Fleming
#70. Games of chance often involve some amount of skill; this does not make them legal. Good poker players often beat novices. But poker is still gambling, and running a poker room - or online casino - is illegal in New York.
Eric Schneiderman
#71. Yeah man, they call gambling a disease, but it's the only disease where you can win a bunch of money.
Norm MacDonald
#72. I never really had an itch for gambling. I work hard for my money, so I don't like going out and giving it away like that.
Amanda Righetti
#73. 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
#74. The President must stop gambling with taxpayers' money and get the country back on the path of fiscal sanity.
Tom Harkin
#75. But Geology carries the day: it is like the pleasure of gambling, speculating, on first arriving, what the rocks may be; I often mentally cry out 3 to 1 Tertiary against primitive; but the latter have hitherto won all the bets.
Charles Darwin
#76. Snake eyes is a gambling term, and an animal term, too.
Mitch Hedberg
#77. I do not have a problem, I enjoy gambling, but I think people are trying to make it seem like I have a problem, because people really don't know.
Michael Jordan
#78. Friendship is something whose depth fits human aspirations and fulfills human possibilities. It has heft to it, as a gold-piece does and a gambling chip does not.
Eugene Kennedy
#79. Any online gamblers here? Well, Congress is looking in shutting that down.There's going to be a massive congressional investigation of online gambling and they're going to shut it down. And when they get done with that, they're going to look into this North Korean thing.
David Letterman
#80. The thing about online gambling is that it's never away, it's always accessible. And so, if you have an issue with gambling, it's designed to take advantage of that.
Ben Affleck
#81. Gambling to me is what a telephone pole might be to a groundhog. He sees that it's there but doesn't for the life of him understand why.
David Sedaris
#82. There is a lure in power. It can get into a man's blood just as gambling and lust for money have been known to do.
Harry Truman
#83. 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
#84. The four major vices of Kali-yuga are (1) illicit connection with women, (2) animal slaughter, (3) intoxication, (4) speculative gambling of all sorts.
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
#85. If you're addicted to gambling, you know where to go to gamble. So, if you have a condition where you're addicted to sex, you know where other that are looking for the same thing are going.
Michael Fassbender
#86. I used to be a health-care investor a long time ago in the public markets. One thing I learned that we tried to apply here is that investing in small molecules, trying to invest in the next treatment, there's an element of gambling to that.
Bill Maris
#87. Who do you think I am, Pete Rose? I don't bet. I come from a long line of compulsive gamblers. Gambling scares me.
Mario Cantone
#88. I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis.
T. Boone Pickens
#89. 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
#91. Strange it was that the British commander-in-chief, known for his chronic gambling, seemed to give no thought to how his American opponent might play his hand. O
David McCullough
#92. My father was a gambler. My father could not resist a casino or a card game. He loved gambling.
Samuel Goldwyn Jr.
#93. Writing, like gambling, was always a big part of my life," he used to say. "Both gave me sanctuary from the world. And you never really had to kill someone to get what you wanted. You just had to beat fate.
Mario Puzo
#94. This gambling habit is the curse of a thief's life.
Jack Black
#96. Our review concludes that DraftKings'/FanDuel's operations constitute illegal gambling under New York law.
Eric Schneiderman
#97. The only gambling tip which amounts to anything is to keep out of the game.
E.W. Howe
#98. In fact, a University of Connecticut study showed that as many as three in four pre-teens and teens who are exposed to Internet gambling become addicted.
Spencer Bachus
#99. Just as outlawing alcohol did not work in the 1920s, current attempts to prohibit online gambling will not work, either.
John Conyers
#100. Somebody tell my fam I got a gambling problem.
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