Famous Quotes & Sayings

He kept gambling even though he didn't need to. But he got that one.

Richard Whately

All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment.

William J. Clinton

She got to go to heaven four days early.

Richard Roeper

Sometimes a 3-1 favorite loses. That's why they call it gambling, and that's why they keep flipping over the cards.

Wilson Mizner

Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.

Lindy Ruff

It's part of our culture, and not necessarily hockey. There's nothing wrong with legal gambling . . . as long as it doesn't become a disease.

Edward de Bono

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.

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Henry Fielding

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.

Charles Caleb Colton

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.

Charles Lamb

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

Charles Baudelaire

I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The soul is so impalpable, so often useless, and sometimes such a nuisance, that I felt no more emotion on losing it than if, on a stroll, I had mislaid my visiting card.

Barry McCaffrey

Young people may think that they are only experimenting, but, as this study shows, they are really gambling with their futures,

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no gambling like politics.

Baltasar Gracian

Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?

Albert Einstein

You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it.

Doyle Brunson

We never talk about gambling around my house.

Douglas William Jerrold

I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family.

Donald L. Carcieri

We are already too dependent on gambling revenue. If we continue, we will soon be owned by them.

Dean Martin

When your opponent's sittin' there holdin' all the aces, there's only one thing to do: kick over the table.

Christopher Moore

You know, there's a 12 step program for gambling. You should look into that. Twelve steps. Coyote laughed. I'll bet I can do it in six.

Albert Camus

In short, they were gambling on their luck, and luck is not to be coerced.

Andrew Jackson

I am now eased in my finances and replenished in my wardrobe.

Artie Lange

You know you have a gambling problem when it's 4 A.M. at the Mirage Sports Book and you're walking around going, 'Hey you get the lacrosse scores?'

Rita Mae Brown

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

Rick Majerus

I love Vegas. God knows that I know how to find my way around the buffets in Las Vegas.

Rene Russo

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.

Thomas Jefferson

In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault if we ever know what ennui [boredom] is, or if we are ever driven to the miserable resource of gaming, which corrupts our dispositions, and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Thomas Jefferson

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.

Spencer Bachus

In fact, a University of Connecticut study showed that as many as three in four pre-teens and teens who are exposed to Internet gambling become addicted.

Matt Taibbi

'Prop trading' is just a fancy term for banks gambling in the market for their own profit.