Best 435 quotes in «gambling quotes» category

There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.

There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.

There are three way of courting ruin -- women, gambling, and calling in technicians.

There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.

There are three ways to spoil a public man: women, gambling, and listening to experts. The first is the pleasantest, the second is the fastest, but the third is the most certain.

There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother's milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won't be any winners.

Therefore 5,000 new video gambling machines costs the economy 5,000 lost jobs each year

There is no gambling like politics.

There is a gambling element to being somebody who is going to take on the job of constantly trying to represent and prop up people who might be somewhat shady. That notion is probably part of how they got the rap. But, I have to find the balance of being colorful, being at times despicable, and also being somebody who does believe in something.

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

There is no moral difference between gambling at cards or in lotteries or on the race track and gambling in the stock market. One method is just pernicious to the body politic as the other kind.

There's an electrical thing about movies.

There's no such thing as a sure thing. That's why they call it gambling.

There would be economic disruption in Omaha from expanded gambling...You would just be moving Chernobyl closer to the population center

The rulers of the country generally believed that betting eliminates strikes. Men had to work in order to gamble.

The socio-economic impact of gambling addiction is comparable to drug and alcohol addiction

The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.

There is something in people; you might even call it a little bit of a gambling instinct… I tell people investing should be dull. It shouldn't be exciting. Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.

The thing about online gambling is that it's never away, it's always accessible. And so, if you have an issue with gambling, it's designed to take advantage of that.

The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.

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

The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organsie gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

To play billiards well is the sign of a misspent 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

We are the movies and the movies are us.

We beat the Great Depression without lotteries and legalized gambling

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

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.

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.