Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Lord Byron

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

Norman Mailer

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

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.

Joe E. Lewis

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

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no gambling like politics.

Barry McCaffrey

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

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.

Horace

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

Jeffrey Bernard

In most betting shops you will see three windows marked 'Bet Here', but only one window with the legend 'Pay Out'.

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.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Gambling is a most foolish and imprudent pursuit.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?

Franklin P. Adams

The best bet you get is an even break.

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.

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.

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

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.

Eddie Jordan

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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 .

Jennifer Aniston

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

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.