Top 100 Quotes About Gambling

#1. But I came to see that Las Vegas is not a freak but is, instead, deeply integrated with the rest of the country, and the world beyond. It is symptom, mirror, metaphor.

Timothy O'Grady

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#2. Most of us are busy gambling on the most dangerous risk of all - living our whole life not doing what we want on the bet that we can buy the freedom to do it later.

Jake Ducey

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#3. Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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#4. He'd tried fishing, dancing, gambling and drink, allegedly four of life's greatest pleasures, and wasn't sure that he saw the point. Food he was happy with - Death liked a good meal as much as anyone else.

Anonymous

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#5. 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

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#6. Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry.

Oliver Goldsmith

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#7. Wine loved I deeply, dice dearly.

William Shakespeare

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#8. Now the evening is beginning and I will discover a human being to court or to be courted by, an adventure with caprice and desire, and while gambling I might find love.

Anais Nin

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#9. In 'Honeymoon in Vegas,' after Nicolas Cage tells his fiancee that he's given her away to pay for his gambling debts, she gets into a tizzy as if she were a 6-year-old. I couldn't believe it.

Allison Anders

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#10. In the dank utility room deep in the subbasements of my personality, a little man wiped his hands on his overalls and pulled the switch: More.

Colson Whitehead

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#11. The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organsie gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.

Edward De Bono

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#12. In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win.

George Bernard Shaw

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#13. I will never be in the stock market. It's just gambling. I'm a gambler, but I'll gamble on the practicality of things.

Jeremy Renner

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#14. In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and to keep them coming back. The longer they play, the more they lose, and in the end, we get it all ...

Robert De Niro

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#15. Yes, I can understand that a man might go to gambling table - when he sees that all that lies between himself and death is his last crown

Honore De Balzac

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#16. I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.

Omar Sharif

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#17. She got to go to heaven four days early.

William J. Clinton

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#18. No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.

Ralph Nader

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#19. Gambling operates under the premise that greed can be satisfied by luck.

Rita Mae Brown

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#20. The national debt has given rise to joint stock companies, to dealings in negotiable effects of all kinds, and to agiotage , in a word to stock-exchange gambling and the modern bankocracy .

Karl Marx

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

Frank Scoblete

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#22. The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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#23. I like gambling on stuff that you don't know anything about. That's when it's exciting.

Artie Lange

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#24. I'm the leader of the platoon and I run gambling and lotteries, dances and I sell beer illegally. I'm a con man and I'm thoroughly lovable.

Steve Martin

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#25. A lottery is a salutary instrument and a tax ... laid on the willing only, that is to say, on those who can risk the price of a ticket without sensible injury, for the possibility of a higher prize.

Thomas Jefferson

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#26. Putting a stop to internet gambling is a necessary reform that targets flagrant violations of state and federal laws.

John Shadegg

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#27. To play billiards well is the sign of a misspent youth.

Herbert Spencer

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#28. 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

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#29. I am now eased in my finances and replenished in my wardrobe.

Andrew Jackson

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#30. Thanks in large part to reduced transportation costs, San Francisco matured from a dust-blown, mud-lined tent camp with gambling saloons into a brick-walled, warehouse-filled commercial center with gambling saloons.

T. J. Stiles

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#31. 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

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#32. the only things that came from the practice were foolhardy acts, ill-advised liaisons, and gambling debts.

Amor Towles

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#33. No use gambling if you can't lose your head once in a while.

Larry Merchant

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#34. We are already too dependent on gambling revenue. If we continue, we will soon be owned by them.

Donald L. Carcieri

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#35. True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.

John Hay

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#36. To go out in a gondola at night is to reconstruct in one's imagination the true Venice, the Venice of the past alive with romance, elopements, abductions, revenged passions, intrigues, adulteries, denouncements, unaccountable deaths, gambling, lute playing and singing.

Peggy Guggenheim

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#37. To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never face the facts.

Ruth Gordon

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#38. It doesn't follow that a nasty habit of mind is any less nasty because it's ancestral. It doesn't follow you can't cure it. Why scratch fleas for ever? Gambling, speculation, is a social disease. It's as natural and desirable as -- syphilis...

H.G.Wells

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#39. They're nuts. Completely insane! I don't get this gambling thing. Didn't these people study statistics at university? Evidently not

Charles Stross

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#40. I have plenty of time... if I am not wise... I could lose it like the games in which you gamble.

Deyth Banger

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#41. It felt wrong for me to push Lady Luck to the side and for me to choose who ought to be 'lucky'. It didn't seem right. It wasn't fair.

John-Talmage Mathis

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#42. What more than madness reigns, when one short sitting many hundreds drains.

Sir John Davies

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#43. Before the battle they had been discussing whether there might be life after death, and Windham and Rochester had made a pact that if there was, the first to die would come back and tell the other. But, said Rochester, he [Windham] never did.

Jenny Uglow

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#44. 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

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#45. 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

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#46. 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

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#47. He had the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.

Mark Twain

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#48. And I know
That they will never
Keep me down
Because there is always
An exit window
That leads somewhere
No one else will go
And the gambling bastards
Well, they always leave it unlocked
Yes, they do

Matthew Quick

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#49. The pain of losing is diverting. So is the thrill of winning. Winning, however, is lonelier, as those you've won money from are not likely to commiserate with you. Winning takes getting used to.

David Mamet

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#50. 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

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#51. I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.

Rupert Murdoch

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#52. I never go looking for a sucker. I look for a Champion and make a sucker of of him.

Amarillo Slim

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#53. Without gambling, I would not exist.

Hunter S. Thompson

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#54. A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game.

Charles Lamb

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#55. Beat him, eat him and get out.

Richard Price

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#56. Just having children is a risk, Kate. We are gambling on the future, investing in the unknown with nothing but hope and blind faith. How can we keep our own safe when anyone else is in danger?

Florence Engel Randall

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#57. Pete Rose gets banned for life for gambling while the drug addicts are allowed back after a year; and then they get extra chances after that. Baseball is saying, in effect, that gambling is worse than drugs. How do kids make sense out of that?

Jim Bouton

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#58. When I talk about drugs and alcohol, I'm talking about sex addiction, gambling addiction, eating addiction, throwing-up addiction. I'm not talking about mental illness.

Abel Ferrara

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#59. The Crown Prince was camped at Nesson this very minute, on his way to the border to stand up to Akielos. He was a young man serious about his responsibilities, Charls said. Damen had to make an effort not to look over at Laurent, gambling, when he said it.

C.S. Pacat

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#60. Whisky, gambling and Ferraris are better than housework.

Francoise Sagan

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#61. Drugs, gambling, and prostitution are the Big Three underground 'moneymakers' in consensual crime. There would be, however, significant boosts to the economy if the stigma attached to the other consensual crimes were eliminated through legalization.

Peter McWilliams

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#62. Nevada has a very dynamic economy, with gambling being the number-one industry, followed closely by blood donorship.

Dave Barry

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#63. You're a gambling man, right? Or do you only bet on frivolous things like poker and fucking women?

Amy Andrews

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#64. Yes, I think poker really isn't gambling.

Al Alvarez

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#65. But to fight something, you really have to try to understand its motivations - particularly when the something you're fighting holds most of the cards, the deck is stacked against you, and the whole gambling hall is on fire and filled with thugs.

Greg Bear

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#66. The greatest risk is not taking any.

Tim Fargo

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#67. Las Vegas is a society of armed masturbators/gambling is the kicker here/sex is extra/weird trip for high rollers ... house-whores for winners, hand jobs for the bad luck crowd.

Hunter S. Thompson

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#68. Obviously, Nevada doesn't prohibit all forms of gambling, but you have to submit yourself to a very rigorous regulatory process to run a gambling operation in Nevada.

Eric Schneiderman

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#69. The first thing he noticed was that Las Vegas seemed to have invented a new school of functional architecture, 'The Gilded Mousetrap School' he thought it might be called, whose main purpose was to channel the customer-mouse into the central gambling trap whether he wanted the cheese or not.

Ian Fleming

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#70. When your opponent's sittin' there holdin' all the aces, there's only one thing to do: kick over the table.

Dean Martin

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#71. It is a bad business, dealing in lottery tickets ... Riches got in such a hasty manner never wear well.

Sarah Josepha Hale

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#72. The Miccosukee facility in Miami only offers bingo, poker, and video gambling machines. Because it does not have slot machines or table games, the Miccosukee tribe doesn't need an agreement with the state. The Miccosukees only answer to the federal government.

Rick Scott

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#73. The gambling industry actually generates more income than the music, sports, and movie industries combined.

William D. Willis

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#74. The stock exchange is a gambling club in which the house members (pros, institutional traders, the State) take advantage of the public's greed in order to profit from their mistakes.

Meir Barak

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#75. If you don't like trading, gambling and betting, then you don't like living.

William C. Brown

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

Josephine Tey

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#77. 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

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#78. A race track is a place where windows clean people.

Danny Thomas

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#79. Nearly everything that was fun, of course, was also a little dangerous: riding roller coasters, skydiving, gambling, sex.

Dean Koontz

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#80. Gambling is a principle inherent in human nature.

Edmund Burke

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#81. Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.

Henry David Thoreau

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#82. Footballers are an easy target. They are offered big lines of credit. Every sport is vulnerable; it's such a big gambling industry, and there are problems with syndicates in other countries.

Gordon Taylor

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#83. Gambling is not a vice, it is an expression of our humanness.
We gamble. Some do it at the gaming table, some do not.
You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play.

Jeanette Winterson

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#84. 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

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#85. For some, the new addiction reached beyond gambling to compulsive eating, alcohol consumption, and hypersexuality.

David Eagleman

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#86. 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

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#87. Writing's like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.

M. John Harrison

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#88. If you mind losing more than you enjoy winning, don't bet.

Clement Freud

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#89. With the development of the web everything is instantaneous. Everything is about how quick you can get it. So with online gambling you don't have to travel to Vegas, Atlantic City, or anywhere in the world to gamble.

Brad Furman

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#90. 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

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#91. Despair was no different than drugs or booze or gambling - it could become a habit, just as easily as anything else.

Kit Rocha

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#92. You've looked in the mirror long enough.
See everything as if it were narrated by another.

John-Talmage Mathis

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#93. The world is more than a game of cards. History is more than a record of gambling operations.

Arthur Twining Hadley

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#94. There's no such thing as a sure thing. That's why they call it gambling.

Neil Simon

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#95. Cinema is gambling. It is better to gamble on a unique film even if it seems like suicide.

Thomas Langmann

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#96. You're gonna lose some ball games and you're gonna win some ball games and that's about it.

Sparky Anderson

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#97. All losers exaggerate because they want you to know how bad they feel.

Mike Caro

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#98. I don't like gambling very much. I don't like being at the mercy of those little white squares that roll around and decide whether you win or lose. I like to have the say-so myself.

Lawrence Tierney

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#99. Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it's because I'm Smart ... But that is a lie: The real reason is because I'm an incurable Gambling addict.

Hunter S. Thompson

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#100. 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

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