Best 435 quotes in «gambling quotes» category

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Local competing businesses were thereby losing revenue.

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

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

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

Most of us do not consciously look at movies.

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

Movies and Disney World don't create addicts

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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 presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.

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

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.

Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or other make a Venus-cast: now and then he indeed will make it twice and even thrice in succession. Are we going to be so feebleminded then as to aver that such a thing happened by the personal intervention of Venus rather than by pure luck?

Our old - fashioned system is better than any new - fangled voting machine. Not only is it guaranteed to work, but there is something I find appealing in putting a mark on a piece of paper for the candidate of your choice, as opposed to pulling a lever as if you were gambling on a slot machine in Las Vegas.

Noting his mother's visit to Las Vegas the weekend before she died. She got to go to heaven four days early.

Once you adopt a value-investment strategy, any other investment behavior starts to seem like gambling.

One starts gambling for a joke, out of curiosity, as a little challenge to fortune. One goes on, pricked to the quick by delusions, excited by vague desires that grow. Woe to you if you win anything - an AMBO, a small TERNO! It is all up with you, for your chance of winning seems certain. ... It is the devil's money going back to hell.