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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.

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.

In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.

Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets.

I paint inspired by my father, a well known character of the nightlife; a clandestine gambling capitalist and owner of three brothels in Argentina. I develop my work in a time that, from my point of view, is much more romantic than the present day.

Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.

Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?

It is lost at dice, what ancient honor won.

It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees.

I think a lot of people like to gamble, and they don't want to go to the casino to gamble. Sometimes they want to do it in the privacy of their home. They can't concentrate the way they want to in a gambling casino.

I think gambling can be a good thing if you don't take it too seriously. Take it and have fun with it, and don't lose what you can't afford to lose.

I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.

It is not economic development; it's about taking money out of the consumer economy and shipping it off to Las Vegas

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

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

It is morally wrong to allow suckers to keep their money.

It is not whether you win or lose, but who gets the blame.

It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.

It is possible that a wise and good man may be prevailed on to game; but it is impossi∣ble that a professed gamester should be a wise and good man.

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.

It's interesting and somewhat dismaying how many people will look up to anyone who wins a multimillion-dollar lottery - but will deride anyone who has worked either hard or smart to attain prosperity and real success.

It's lose, lose for the taxpayer

It's one thing to ask your bank manager for an overdraft to buy 500 begonias for the borders in Haslemere, but quite another to seek financial succour to avail oneself of the 5-2 they're offering on lie de Bourbon for the St Leger.

I've been on such a losing streak that if I had been around I would have taken General Custer and given points.

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

I understand it is 13-8 against Egon Ronay publishing a Good Betting Shop Food Guide by 1997.

It's time to wipe the slate clean, recriminalize gambling, just like we did in this country 100 years ago

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.

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.

I wouldn't bet on a horse unless he came up to my house and told me to himself.

I've seen many lives destroyed. I've seen more people have problems with gambling than I have with drugs and alcohol. And there are some serious consequences if you get in over your head.

I would hate to see the state of Wisconsin make another mistake and locate another casino in a high-density population area

I wanted Raging Bull. I wanted Casino. I got Rocky and Bullwinkle. But that's OK, because I still get to tell people I've worked with Robert DeNiro.

I want people to understand, gambling is not a bad thing if you do it within the framework of what it's meant to be, which is fun and entertaining.

Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.

Keep flax from fire, and youth from gaming.

Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.

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 ass 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.

Las Vegas was like that. There was a visceral attraction here. The bold promise of money and sex. But the first was a broken promise, a mirage, and the second was fraught with danger, expense, physical and mental risk. It was where the real gambling took place in this town.

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.

Legalized gambling cost taxpayers $3 for every $1 in state revenue to government

Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.

Life is nothing but a bet that in the end everyone is doomed to lose. So you'd better get used!

Local competing businesses were thereby losing revenue.

Losers walking around with money in their pockets are always dangerous, not to be trusted. Some horse always reaches out and grabs them.

Losing as much money as I can get hold of is an instant solution to my economic problems.

Lotteries boost state revenues in the short run but don't feed the economy in the long run

Many players will not improve because they cannot bear self-knowledge.