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gambling may succeed
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 Caleb Colton
gambling nevada people push sports
The people who want to push for the end of legalized sports gambling in Nevada would be encouraging the crooks. And they would be counterproductive to what they want to accomplish. Dick Davies
gambling honor dice
It is lost at dice, what ancient honor won. William Shakespeare
gambling games fire
A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game. Charles Lamb
gambling folds
Do not fold, spindle or mutilate.
gambling soul nuisance
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. Charles Baudelaire
gambling casinos gamer
Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do. Baltasar Gracian
gambling luck meals
My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow money from my fellow workmen to settle my room rent and pay for my meals. James Weldon Johnson
gambling laws written
Many of California's gambling laws were written in the 19th Century, and some of them need to be modernized.
people may medical
It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.
people solitude multitudes
A multitude of people and yet solitude. Charles Dickens
people governing whole
My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.
people words-of-wisdom selfishness
Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.
people words-of-wisdom want
Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.
people next cleanliness
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
people scary alive
I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.
people enemy
Some people are nobody's enemies but their own
people romance wonder-woman
Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows? Charles Soule
bullshit surface powerpoint
Nothing stands for content-free corporate bullshit quite like PowerPoint. And that's just scratching the surface... Charles Stross
bulls rotting want
I want to hold you like a kitten in my shirt, and still I want to spread your thighs and plow ye like a rotting bull. I dinna understand myself. Diana Gabaldon
bullshit facts rasta
Facts an' facts, an' t'ings an t'ings: dem's all a lotta fockin' bullshit. Hear me! Dere is no truth but de one truth, an' that is the truth of Jah Rastafari. Bob Marley
bulls choose deal expect good negotiate offer sheet sit whether
Whether they choose to go out and get an offer sheet (the Bulls can match), I don't want that to happen. I think they want to be here. I expect us to sit down and negotiate and get a deal done that's good for them and good for us. John Paxson
bulls intimidate kick knew notch physically tough
We knew we were in for a tough one. You always know that when you play the Bulls at Loftus they're going to kick it up a notch and try to physically intimidate you. Stirling Mortlock
bulls held kings mad treaties
Mad kings and mad bulls are not to be held by treaties and packthread. Benjamin Franklin
bullshit guy healthy
Atlantic reckoned we should use a top Yank producer and appointed one Eddie Kramer to the post. It turns out the guy was full of bullshit and couldn't produce a healthy fart. Bon Scott
bulls fighter tendencies
The bull-fighter has merely demonstrated that he is a butcher with balletic tendencies. Brigid Brophy
bullshit happy-endings pauses
Happy endings are bullshit. There are only happy pauses. Brian K. Vaughan