Gambling Quotes

Without gambling, I would not exist.

My advice to the unborn is, don't be born with a gambling instinct unless you have a good sense of probabilities.

Didn't I warn you-Huh-Didn't I tell you one of em was going to win!?? So now, what do we do?

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

I'm not a gambling-man. I have never bet a dollar in all my life.

You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.

The gambling supply house catalog is distinctly not the safest place to learn about cheating devices, beware of catalog men.

Putting a stop to internet gambling is a necessary reform that targets flagrant violations of state and federal laws.

I would hate to see the state of Wisconsin make another mistake and locate another casino in a high-density population area

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

Whoever plays deep must necessarily lose his money or his character.

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

Losing as much money as I can get hold of is an instant solution to my economic problems.

Writings like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.

It was a place of sin, loose women, whiskey and gambling. It was no place for a good Presbyterian, and I did not long remain one.

Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry.

I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.

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

In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and to keep them coming back. The longer they play, the more they lose, and in the end, we get it all.

When I played pool I was like a good psychiatrist. I cured em of all their daydreams and delusions.

Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good.

Everyone told me to pass on Speed because it was a 'bus movie.'

I mean, what do you do in Las Vegas? You gamble - and you go to strip clubs.

What more than madness reigns, when one short sitting many hundreds drains.

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.

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

My idea of gambling was walking through Central Park, whistling show tunes.

I've always played cards. I can't remember when there wasn't a gambling game going on somewhere, even if it was a craps game in a wheelbarrow on the backside of the racetrack.

She got to go to heaven four days early.

I think that gambling is a synthetic experience and that if you have any balls you gamble with your life. I have. So can everybody else.

Dice have their laws, which the courts of justice cannot undo.

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

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

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

The best bet you get is an even break.

Play not for gain, but sport. Who plays for more Than he can lose with pleasure, stakes his heart; Perhaps his wife's too, and whom she hath bore.

Footballers are an easy target. They are offered big lines of credit. Every sport is vulnerable; its such a big gambling industry, and there are problems with syndicates in other countries.

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

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

Of all mechanics, of all servile handycrafts-men, a gamester is the vilest. But yet, as many of the quality are of the profession, he is admitted amongst the politest company.

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

Bankruptcies and addictions increase in areas with casinos

Utah sells itself to Fortune 500 companies as a noncasino state where employers don't have to be concerned about absenteeism and other problems associated with gambling

Crime goes up 10 percent due to the gambling by the third year after racinos or slot machines are open, and then it continues upward after that

27 percent to 55 percent of casino revenues come from problem or pathological gamblers

The ABCs of legalized gambling - addictions, bankruptcies and crime

I'm crazy enough to believe in taking chances in every way, in making choices and gambling with your life. That's the kind of gambling I believe in.

In Louisiana, we don't bet on football games, we bet on whether a politician is going to be indicted or not.

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.

Gambling has held human beings in thrall for millennia. It has been engaged in everywhere, from the dregs of society to the most respectable circles.