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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 morally wrong to allow suckers to keep their money.

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

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

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 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 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 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 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.

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

It's lose, lose for the taxpayer

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

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

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

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.

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

Keep flax from fire, and youth from gaming.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Most of us do not consciously look at movies.

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

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

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

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

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 and Disney World don't create addicts

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

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

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