Quotes about gambling
gambling boredom employment
In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault if we ever know what ennui [boredom] is, or if we are ever driven to the miserable resource of gaming, which corrupts our dispositions, and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind. Thomas Jefferson
gambling habit disposition
Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.
gambling risk tickets
A lottery is a salutary instrument and a tax... laid on the willing only, that is to say, on those who can risk the price of a ticket without sensible injury, for the possibility of a higher prize.
gambling probability depends
Almost all life depends on probabilities. Voltaire
gambling barbarians disease
Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized. William Ralph Inge
gambling friendly machines
It's completely idiot proof." I told them they've got it all wrong. I want a machine that is "idiot friendly. William Weld
gambling heaven four
She got to go to heaven four days early. William J. Clinton
gambling devil
The Devil invented gambling. Saint Augustine
gambling way
Gambling: A sure way to get nothing from something. Wilson Mizner
gambling gambling-and-love way
Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.
gambling advice saving
Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it. Will Rogers
gambling debt great-depression
Our whole Depression was brought on by gambling, not in the stock market alone but in expanding and borrowing and going in debt... all just to make some easy money quick.
gambling alcohol other-half
I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol and wild women. The other half I wasted. W. C. Fields