Best 435 quotes in «gambling quotes» category

The world's biggest lottery prize is not money, its life.

Trusting fate is like gambling on an unknown outcome with unknown consequences.

We would all be together on the journey then, our destination the village at the end of the road where people gamble day and night but never lose their money, eat but never fill their stomachs, drink but never leave their minds.

When gambling, one must know their opponent, and their weaknesses. Especially, if that opponent is a machine.

When we reach our highest potential, we will find our highest love.

You enter the cave of the bear to become its master or its meat.

They didn’t mind so much when I was a dumb logger and got into a hassle; that’s excusable, they say, that’s a hard-workin’ feller blowing off steam, they say. But if you’re a gambler, if they know you to get up a back-room game now and then, all you have to do is spit slantwise and you’re a goddamned criminal.

Think of horse races. People like to bet on the one with three legs and a wheeze.They don't bet on that one because they think it will win, but because they can see how very glorious it would be if it were to win

This person sees not her own hand depositing the next dollar in a slot machine, but the hand of fate, or God. It’s her true conviction that there are forces at work for her to win a large jackpot— or at least to win back the money lost. After all, the only-for-show pictures of fruit had almost aligned with one another the last couple spins.

When you are gambling, though you probably do not know it, your mind is on the tide, the ebb and flow of the Universe, and there is no way to fight it. Going with the flow is the only option, so there is no point in struggling against it, but, it will tell you how you sit with God, or the Universe, at that particular time in your life.

You cannot afford to gamble your youth only for fun.

A dollar won is twice as sweet as a dollar earned.

Aces are larger than life and greater than mountains.

A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game.

A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.

A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated.

Ain't only three things to gambling: knowing the 60-40 end of the proposition, money management, and knowing yourself.

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling.

All gamblers are paranoid, though they call it superstition.

All losers exaggerate because they want you to know how bad they feel.

Almost all life depends on probabilities.

A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.

You’ve looked in the mirror long enough. See everything as if it were narrated by another.

Although crime and corruption decreases within a one-mile radius of a casino, it increases 10 percent within a 35-mile radius by the third year the casino is open.

Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.

And it´s so different for a lot of people I´ve known. One partner doesn´t love the other enough to stop drinking, or gambling, or running around with other women. One is the giver and one is the taker. The giver wishes the taker would stop.

Another threat to stability is the rise of Internet gambling

Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of "speculation"; but which ought to be called Gambling.

Any online gamblers here? Well, Congress is looking in shutting that down.There's going to be a massive congressional investigation of online gambling and they're going to shut it down. And when they get done with that, they're going to look into this North Korean thing.

A politician taking campaign money from gamblers in Nevada is like one taking campaign money from the auto people in Michigan. Gambling is our legal business.

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

As a poodle may have his hair cut long or his hair cut short, as he may be trimmed with pink ribbons or with blue ribbons, yet he remains the same old poodle, so capitalism may be trimmed with factory laws, tenement laws, divorce laws and gambling laws, but it remains the same old capitalism. These "humanitarian parts" are only trimming the poodle. Socialism, one and inseparable with its "antirent and anticapital parts," means to get rid of the poodle.

A shrinking economy means lost sales and lost jobs

as long as there is a lottery, we the people of the United States must believe in getting something for nothing.

A sure thing is no fun.

As far as the gambling debts on there, not one cent was any type of sports betting. It's just something obviously I'm not proud of because it drags a lot of other people into this than I'd want. It's something I'm continuing to deal with.

At gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck.

A study in Illinois in the mid-1990s found that 65 percent of businesses were hurt by the proximity of gambling

At the Mirage Sportsbook, you can get a line on 2 kid playing wiffleball in the backyard in Minnesota

A young woman with long hair and a short white halter dress walks through the casino at the Riviera in Las Vegas at one in the morning. It was precisely this moment that made Play It As It Lays begin to tell itself to me.

Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his oar I would have stayed.

Bankruptcies will be up 18 to 42 percent around racinos areas tracks as people lose their money

Bets at first were fool-traps, where the wise like spiders lay in ambush for the flies.

Betting stimulates the caring glands. That is where there is so much caring at the racetrack.

Bond didn't defend the practice. He simply maintained that the more effort and ingenuity you put into gambling, the more you took out.

But Geology carries the day: it is like the pleasure of gambling, speculating, on first arriving, what the rocks may be; I often mentally cry out 3 to 1 Tertiary against primitive; but the latter have hitherto won all the bets.

But I am in the gambling business, for good or ill; it is the business I have chosen, and the only governing rule that we all recognize is: always sit close to an exit and never trust a man who doesn't sweat.

A lottery is a salutary instrument and a tax... laid on the willing only, that is to say, on those who can risk the price of a ticket without sensible injury, for the possibility of a higher prize.

But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.