Best 435 quotes in «gambling quotes» category

I'm the type of guy where one thing leads to another and eventually it gets awful. If I put a $5 bet on a roulette table tonight at 10 o'clock, by tomorrow at noon I would be running guns to Cuba.

I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.

In 1993, 40 percent of Minnesota restaurateurs reported declines attributed to casinos

In a free enterprise system, with an honest and stable money, there is dominantly a close link between effort and productivity, on the one hand, and economic reward on the other. Inflation severs this link. Reward comes to depend less and less on effort and production, and more and more on successful gambling and luck.

In betting on races, there are two elements that are never lacking - hope as hope, and an incomplete recollection of the past.

In Louisiana, we don't bet on football games, we bet on whether a politician is going to be indicted or not.

In fact, a University of Connecticut study showed that as many as three in four pre-teens and teens who are exposed to Internet gambling become addicted.

...in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness -- faith in a system; and this made his damnation certain.

In most betting shops you will see three windows marked 'Bet Here', but only one window with the legend 'Pay Out'.

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

In permitting gambling enterprises to flourish in the United States and abroad, the United States undermines global socio-economic stability in contravention of its international obligations

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

It is lost at dice, what ancient honor won.

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

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

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's lose, lose for the taxpayer

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 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 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 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.

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

I never enjoyed working in a film.

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

Keep flax from fire, and youth from gaming.

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.

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