Famous Quotes & Sayings

Euripides

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

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.

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.

Henry Ward Beecher

A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.

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.

Norman Mailer

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

Michael Franzese

I've seen many lives destroyed. I've seen more people have problems with gambling than I have with drugs and alcohol. And there are some serious consequences if you get in over your head.

Michael Jordan

Gambling is legal and betting is legal, for what I bet.

Joe E. Lewis

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

John Conyers

Just as outlawing alcohol did not work in the 1920s, current attempts to prohibit online gambling will not work, either.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

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

No use gambling if you can't lose your head once in a while.

Lord Byron

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

Matt Taibbi

'Prop trading' is just a fancy term for banks gambling in the market for their own profit.

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.

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.

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Mark Twain

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.

Mario Puzo

All gamblers are paranoid, though they call it superstition.

Mary Wortley Montagu

The familiarities of the gaming-table contribute very much to the decay of politeness ... The pouts and quarrels that naturally arise from disputes must put an end to all complaisance, or even good will towards one another.

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?

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.