Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Internet gambling has become a substantial phenomenon in the gaming industry space.

If you had told me we were going to score 81 points tonight before the game, I'd have said no, but they kept gambling (on defense), and our guys did a nice job of making them pay for gambling.

Jack London

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

Georges Pompidou

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

Karl Marx

The national debt has given rise to joint stock companies, to dealings in negotiable effects of all kinds, and to agiotage , in a word to stock-exchange gambling and the modern bankocracy .

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.

Lindy Ruff

It's part of our culture, and not necessarily hockey. There's nothing wrong with legal gambling . . . as long as it doesn't become a disease.

It seems all the great gambling movies use gambling to propel another storyline,

That's about $9 million a year, and for a gambling ring that's not a big operation. It's not notable for the size, it's notable for who the players are that are placing the bets.

Horace

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

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.

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.

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.

Francoise Sagan

Whisky, gambling and Ferraris are better than housework.

Euripides

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

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

There wasn't any gambling about it because the game was on the line, and they weren't going to do us any good sitting on the bench.

There were numerous intercepts that he was running a gambling operation. There was one 28-day period in Nov. 2005 when he placed more than $3 million in bets.

Barry McCaffrey

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

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.

Gloria Steinem

Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage

Jennifer Aniston

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

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.

Paul Auster

This was the first time he had seriously confronted what he was doing, and the force of that awareness came very abruptly - with a surging of his pulse and a frantic pounding in his head. He was about to gamble his life on that table, and the insanity of that risk filled him with a kind of awe.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.