Best 435 quotes in «gambling quotes» category

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.

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.

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.

Legalized gambling cost taxpayers $3 for every $1 in state revenue to government

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.

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

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.

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

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

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

Losers walking around with money in their pockets are always dangerous, not to be trusted. Some horse always reaches out and grabs them.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Most of us do not consciously look at movies.

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

Nearly everything that was fun, of course, was also a little dangerous: riding roller coasters, skydiving, gambling, sex.

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

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

No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.

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 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?

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

No use gambling if you can't lose your head once in a while.

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.

No wife can endure a gambling husband-unless he is a steady winner.

Obesity is the result of a loss of self-control. Indeed, loss of self-control might be said to be the defining social (or anti-social) characteristic of our age: public drunkenness, excessive gambling, promiscuity and common-or-garden rudeness are all examples of our collective loss of self-control.

Of all mechanics, of all servile handycrafts-men, a gamester is the vilest. But yet, as many of the quality are of the profession, he is admitted amongst the politest company.

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.

One way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on him.

One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.

Online gambling is very seductive and very illusory. It can seem like a really good idea. It can seem like what people told you to work hard and get ahead, but when someone shows you something and it's too good to be true, it probably is.

O sancta simplicitas! What strange simplification and falsification mankind lives on! One can never cease to marvel once one has acquired eyes for this marvel! How we have made everything around us bright and free and easy and simple! How we have known how to bestow on our senses a passport to everything superficial, on our thoughts a divine desire for wanton gambling and false conclusions! - how we have from the very beginning understood how to retain our ignorance so as to enjoy an almost inconceivable freedom, frivolity, impetuosity, bravery, cheerfulness of life, so as to enjoy life!

Our public credit is good, but the abundance of paper has produced a spirit of gambling in the funds, which has laid up our ships at the wharves as too slow instruments of profit, and has even disarmed the hand of the tailor of his needle and thimble. They say the evil will cure itself. I wish it may; but I have rarely seen a gamester cured, even by the disasters of his vocation.

People will spend a tremendous amount of money in casinos, money they normally would spend on refrigerators or a new car. Local businesses will suffer because they'll lose consumer dollars to casinos.