Famous Quotes & Sayings

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?

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.

Jacque Fresco

Crime is based upon need, making money. People sell drugs to make money. But if everybody is cared for, they don't sell drugs and if there's no money you can't sell drugs even if you wanted to. There'd be no such thing as gambling, prostitution, or selling out, or paying off a senator or a governor. There are no senators, there are no governors so you can't pay them off. If you take away the basis or the condition that generate abhorrent behavior, you don't have abhorrent behavior.

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.

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.

Richard Whately

All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment.

Rebecca West

Time spent in a casino is time given to death, a foretaste of the hour when one's flesh will be diverted to the purposes of the worm and not of the will.

Peter McWilliams

Drugs, gambling, and prostitution are the Big Three underground 'moneymakers' in consensual crime. There would be, however, significant boosts to the economy if the stigma attached to the other consensual crimes were eliminated through legalization.

Peter Singer

We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet- for the sake of hamburgers

Rita Mae Brown

Gambling operates under the premise that greed can be satisfied by luck.

Rick Majerus

I love Vegas. God knows that I know how to find my way around the buffets in Las Vegas.

Rene Russo

I wanted Raging Bull. I wanted Casino. I got Rocky and Bullwinkle. But that's OK, because I still get to tell people I've worked with Robert DeNiro.

Richard Price

Beat him, eat him and get out.

Richard Roeper

Sometimes a 3-1 favorite loses. That's why they call it gambling, and that's why they keep flipping over the cards.

Robert G. Allen

Without knowledge and a workable plan, you are gambling, with little or no chance of success.

Samantha Bee

The best part about poker is there's no down side.

Spencer Bachus

In fact, a University of Connecticut study showed that as many as three in four pre-teens and teens who are exposed to Internet gambling become addicted.

Ted Allen

Buying stock is exactly the same thing as going to a casino, only with no cocktail service.

Neil Simon

There's no such thing as a sure thing. That's why they call it gambling.