Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Franzese

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.

Michael Jordan

Gambling is legal and betting is legal, for what I bet.

Many of California's gambling laws were written in the 19th Century, and some of them need to be modernized.

Jean Chretien

Our old - fashioned system is better than any new - fangled voting machine. Not only is it guaranteed to work, but there is something I find appealing in putting a mark on a piece of paper for the candidate of your choice, as opposed to pulling a lever as if you were gambling on a slot machine in Las Vegas.

Euripides

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Gambling is a most foolish and imprudent pursuit.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?

Francoise Sagan

Whisky, gambling and Ferraris are better than housework.

George Bernard Shaw

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

George Bernard Shaw

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich: something for nothing

Franklin P. Adams

The best bet you get is an even break.

Jeffrey Bernard

In most betting shops you will see three windows marked 'Bet Here', but only one window with the legend 'Pay Out'.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Georges Pompidou

There are three way of courting ruin -- women, gambling, and calling in technicians.

Jack London

...in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness -- faith in a system; and this made his damnation certain.

Japan is gambling that its policies will result in beneficial, self-sustaining results.

That's the million-dollar question. Why would such a good kid with so much promise do this? We know he had a gambling addiction, but why didn't he seek other options? That has everyone scratching their heads.

Jean de la Bruyere

An assembly of the states, a court of justice, shows nothing so serious and grave as a table of gamesters playing very high; a melancholy solicitude clouds their looks; envy and rancor agitate their minds while the meeting lasts, without regard to friendship, alliances, birth or distinctions.

Horace

Curst is the wretch enslaved to such a vice, Who ventures life and soul upon the dice.

Jennifer Aniston

Oh, it's not really gambling when you never lose.

Jeremy Renner

I will never be in the stock market. It's just gambling. I'm a gambler, but I'll gamble on the practicality of things.

Gloria Steinem

Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage

Nora Volkow

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

Hunter S. Thompson

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.

Hunter S. Thompson

Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today's winners are tomorrow's blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope.

Hunter S. Thompson

Without gambling, I would not exist.

Euripides

The lucky person passes for a genius.

Ada Leverson

Suspense is torture ... but delightful--or there'd be no gambling in the world.

David Letterman

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.

We got it -- gambling fever. We got it pretty bad.

E. W. Howe

The only gambling tip which amounts to anything is to keep out of the game.

We were working to shut down a gambling casino, and I make no apologies.