Best 435 quotes in «gambling quotes» category

Fortunately my wife is understanding. When I come home from the races she never asks any questions, if I tell her I just ate a $380 hot dog.

Fortune always will confer an aura of worth, unworthily; and in this world The lucky person passes for a genius.

Gambling has a zero-sum economic effect in its market and, like legalizing cocaine, the socio-economic costs of legalizing gambling overwhelm the benefits

Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25 to 100 per cent.

Gambling drains the economy by taking money away from grocery stores and retail businesses and putting it in the hands of an industry that produces no product

Gambling is being subsidized by the taxpayers

Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.

Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.

Gambling houses are temples where the most sordid and turbulent passions contend; there no spectator can be indifferent. A card or a small square of ivory interests more than the loss of an empire, or the ruin of an unoffending group of infants, and their nearest relatives.

Gambling is a bad deal for taxpayers

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

Gaming is a kind of tacit confession that the company engaged therein do in general exceed the bounds of their respective fortunes, and therefore they cast lots to determine upon whom the ruin shall at present fall, that the rest may be saved a little longer.

Gamblers spend 10 percent less on food; 25 percent less on clothing and 35 percent less on savings

Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.

Gambling is part of the human condition. I love it. I have the best time gambling. I've been winning fortunes, and I've been losing them.

Gambling operates under the premise that greed can be satisfied by luck.

Gambling undermines the moral fiber of society.

Gambling interests hire lots of economists to do impact studies, but what you need is cost-benefit analysis, and you'll never see the industry finance those

Gambling is a principle inherent in human nature.

Gambling is not as destructive as war or as boring as pornography. It is not as immoral as business or as suicidal as watching television. And the percentages are better than religion.

Gaming is a vice the more dangerous as it is deceitful; and, contrary to every other species of luxury, flatters its votaries with the hopes of increasing their wealth; so that avarice itself is so far from securing us against its temptations that it often betrays the more thoughtless and giddy part of mankind into them.

Gaming has been resorted to by the affluent as a refuge from ennui. It is a mental dram, and may succeed for a moment; but, like all other stimuli, it produces indirect debility.

Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality.

Gambling makes boys selfish and cruel as well as men.

Guessing has never been widely acclaimed as a good gambling strategy.

Grantland Rice can go to hell as far as I'm concerned.

Greyhound racing is a self-regulating gambling business that depends on the uncontrolled breeding and unaccountable disappearance of thousands of dogs every year. That is a situation that is unacceptable and indefensible

He said, Son, I've made a life out of readin' people's faces, and knowin' what their cards were by the way they held their eyes.

He had the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.

He was so honest you could play craps with him over the phone.

Hold'em - like life itself - has its defining moment. It's the flop. When you see the flop, you're looking at 71 percent of your hand, and the cost is only a single round of betting.

Historically, the stock market is like a gambling casino with the odds in your favor. Over the long pull, stocks are given something like nine and a half to ten percent compounded per year. The banks have probably given you something in the order of four to five.

Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.

I am not one of the people who believe that the main reason why a chap becomes a bookmaker is because he is too scared to steal and too heavy to become a jockey.

Horse sense is the instinct that keeps horses from betting on men.

Horse racing is animated roulette.

I am best described as just a guy with a very large bump of curiosity and a gambling instinct.

I am not surprised that there are gambling houses, like so many snares laid for human avarice; like abysses where many a man's money is engulfed and swallowed up without any hope of return; like frightful rocks against which the gamblers are thrown and perish.

I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.

I bet on a horse at ten-to-one. It didn't come in until half-past five.

I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.

I came to the conclusion long ago that all life is six to five against.

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

I could have gone for gambling or sex addiction,...But I went for obesity because of the tremendous impact it has.

If, after the first twenty minutes, you don't know who the sucker at the table is, it's you.

I don’t like gambling very much. I don’t like being at the mercy of those little white squares that roll around and decide whether you win or lose. I like to have the say-so myself.

I don't play golf competitively. I tell everybody that I cheat so they won't gamble with me. That's why you can't watch football. Everybody's gambling. They don't want to watch the game; they watch the spread.

I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.

If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.