Gambling Quotes - Page 12

My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow money from my fellow workmen to settle my room rent and pay for my meals.

Didn't I warn you-Huh-Didn't I tell you one of em was going to win!?? So now, what do we do?

If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it?

Without gambling, I would not exist.

There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother's milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won't be any winners.

Yes, I can understand that a man might go to a gambling table when he sees that all that lies between him and death is his last crown.

The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother, and I call him Gamblor!

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

The majority of casino players leave too much to chance when playing in a casino. To put it bluntly, they don't have a clue as to how to play.

Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.

I bet on a horse at ten-to-one. It didn't come in until half-past five.

The Church has been and now is unalterably opposed to gambling in any form whatever. It is opposed to any game of chance, occupation, or so-called business, which takes money from the person who may be possessed of it without giving value received in return. It is opposed to all practices the tendency of which is to encourage the spirit of reckless speculation, and particularly to that which tends to degrade or weaken the high moral standard which the members of the Church, and our community at large, have always maintained

Gambling undermines the moral fiber of society.

Play not for gain, but sport. Who plays for more Than he can lose with pleasure, stakes his heart; Perhaps his wife's too, and whom she hath bore.

In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win.

Even as I approach the gambling hall, as soon as I hear, two rooms away, the jingle of money poured out on the table, I almost go into convulsions.

If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with big technology, either to push it forward or to stop it, is gambling in human lives.

For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established some claim to being considered a learned man.

Scobe's Fifth Law: All dealers wish they were doing something other than dealing. All dealers have plans to get out of dealing. Ten years later they have different plans to get out of dealing.

Scobe's Tenth Law: In all endeavors, in all aspects of life, there are more horses asses than horses!

If thy desire to raise thy fortunes encourage thy delights to the casts of fortune, be wise betimes, lest thou repent too late; what thou gettest, thou gainest by abused providence; what thou losest, thou losest by abused patience; what thou winnest is prodigally spent; what thou losest is prodigally lost; it is an evil trade that prodigally drives; and a bad voyage where the pilot is blind.

But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.

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

We are already too dependent on gambling revenue. If we continue, we will soon be owned by them.

Nearly everything that was fun, of course, was also a little dangerous: riding roller coasters, skydiving, gambling, sex.