Best 435 quotes in «gambling quotes» category

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 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'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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

Keep flax from fire, and youth from gaming.

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.

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

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

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

Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.

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.

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

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.

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

Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness.

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

Movies and Disney World don't create addicts

Most amusements only mean trying to win another person's money.

Most of us do not consciously look at movies.

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.

Mr.Blank's reputation as a card shark had preceded him. No one accused him of being dishonest, but on the other hand no one accused him of being honest.

My advice to the unborn is, don't be born with a gambling instinct unless you have a good sense of probabilities.

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.

My bottom line is this is no time to be gambling with our economy

My idea of gambling was walking through Central Park, whistling show tunes.

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

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.

No reputable economist anywhere believes it's gambling an economic tool

Night and day a picture of the showcase of the Lame Novelty Company and its gambling content would seem to appear before my eyes. Then I realized that I could not rest content and continue practising to become a magician until I knew what those gambling gimmicks in that showcase click.

No horse can go as fast as the money you put on it.

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

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.