Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

William Shakespeare

It is lost at dice, what ancient honor won.

Charles Lamb

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

Charles Lamb

Do not fold, spindle or mutilate.

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.

Baltasar Gracian

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

James Weldon Johnson

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.

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

Euripides

The lucky person passes for a genius.

Ada Leverson

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

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.

Craig Benson

I do not support gambling in this state.

Charles Darwin

But Geology carries the day: it is like the pleasure of gambling, speculating, on first arriving, what the rocks may be; I often mentally cry out 3 to 1 Tertiary against primitive; but the latter have hitherto won all the bets.

Artie Lange

I like gambling on stuff that you don't know anything about. That's when it's exciting.

Edmund Burke

Gambling is a principle inherent in human nature.

E. W. Howe

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

Albert Camus

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

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.

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.

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.

Dean Martin

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

Andrew Jackson

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

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

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

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

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

We're seeing a lot of good kids with gambling problems.

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.

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?'