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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.

The world is the house of the strong.

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.

The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win

They are the new breed of slot machine-colorful, fancy, exciting, wonderful...and deadly.

They head the list of bad to bet on: But I insist they're worse to get on

Thirty-seven percent of gamblers dip into their savings to fulfill their habit

This is an industry that generates addicted gamblers and they are desperate to get money

Time spent in a casino is time given to death, a foretaste of the hour when one's flesh will be diverted to the purposes of the worm and not of the will.

This was the first time he had seriously confronted what he was doing, and the force of that awareness came very abruptly - with a surging of his pulse and a frantic pounding in his head. He was about to gamble his life on that table, and the insanity of that risk filled him with a kind of awe.

Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame.

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.

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

To play billiards well was a sign of an ill-spent youth

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.

Trading is more or less like betting or gambling, but only without the pleasure show of the game.

Try to decide how good your hand is at a given moment. Nothing else matters. Nothing.

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.

Unfortunately, gambling and winning don't often go hand-in-hand.

Two-up is Australia's very own way of parting a fool and his money.

We are the movies and the movies are us.

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

We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet- for the sake of hamburgers

Utah sells itself to Fortune 500 companies as a noncasino state where employers don't have to be concerned about absenteeism and other problems associated with gambling

War is the gambling table of governments, and citizens the dupes of the game.

We beat the Great Depression without lotteries and legalized gambling

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.

Were it good To set the exact wealth of all our states All at one cast? to set so rich a main On the nice hazard of one doubtful hour? It were not good.

We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms. We must begin higher up, namely, in education.

What we really need is a federal intervention plan, which calls for a moratorium on gambling in the U.S.

We have a swarm of people in the stock market - not out of knowledge, not out of expectation, but out of basically a gambling instinct, the hope that prices will go up.

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

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

While gambling addiction can be a social justice reason for some to ban gambling, the economic evidence suggests that the social and economic costs of gambling are $3 to the taxpayers for every $1 in benefits

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

Whoever plays deep must necessarily lose his money or his character.

Who do you think I am, Pete Rose? I don't bet. I come from a long line of compulsive gamblers. Gambling scares me.

With spots quadrangular of diamond form, ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, and spades, the emblems of untimely graves.

With Jane Birkin, we had a scene from a film called Jane B. by Agnès V. - a portrait I made in '87. We had a casino scene, surrealistic, in which we had some naked people gambling. Jane Birkin was the card dealer and I was the player. I had beautiful jewelery around me, and when I lost I would take the jewelery and say, Service - being very generous, because it was very expensive jewelery. I would say, Tip.

Wine loved I deeply, dice dearly.

Without knowledge and a workable plan, you are gambling, with little or no chance of success.

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.

Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage

You bring in gambling into a major population base, and the more people you have going into a casino, the more people you have hooked on gambling

Writings like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.

Yes, prudently invested contributions to the Social Security fund may bring greater dividends, but those contributions would also face a greater risk. It would be like gambling. We should not gamble with the investments and the future of the citizens of this land.

Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance.

You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.

You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it.

All life is a gamble and our lives are the dice we throw,