Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Some people just won't come gambling because gambling and smoking go hand in hand.

Jennifer Aniston

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Gambling is a most foolish and imprudent pursuit.

Barry McCaffrey

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

Eddie Jordan

I'm a gambling man and would have a punt on Bernie,

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.

Mario Puzo

All gamblers are paranoid, though they call it superstition.

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.

Matt Taibbi

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

Norman Mailer

You're gambling with something vital. Most writers get smashed egos.

Neil Simon

There's no such thing as a sure thing. That's why they call it gambling.

Jacque Fresco

Crime is based upon need, making money. People sell drugs to make money. But if everybody is cared for, they don't sell drugs and if there's no money you can't sell drugs even if you wanted to. There'd be no such thing as gambling, prostitution, or selling out, or paying off a senator or a governor. There are no senators, there are no governors so you can't pay them off. If you take away the basis or the condition that generate abhorrent behavior, you don't have abhorrent behavior.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

The outside wold pressures you into a mold, but if you don't accept that - you gamble with life. Call it gambling.

Peter McWilliams

Drugs, gambling, and prostitution are the Big Three underground 'moneymakers' in consensual crime. There would be, however, significant boosts to the economy if the stigma attached to the other consensual crimes were eliminated through legalization.

Peter Singer

We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet- for the sake of hamburgers

Joe E. Lewis

I met with an accident on the way to the track; I arrived safely.

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

Lord Byron

I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people - being always excited.

John Conyers

Just as outlawing alcohol did not work in the 1920s, current attempts to prohibit online gambling will not work, either.

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.

Richard Whately

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

Rebecca West

Time spent in a casino is time given to death, a foretaste of the hour when one's flesh will be diverted to the purposes of the worm and not of the will.

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.

Robert G. Allen

Without knowledge and a workable plan, you are gambling, with little or no chance of success.

Samantha Bee

The best part about poker is there's no down side.

Ted Allen

Buying stock is exactly the same thing as going to a casino, only with no cocktail service.