Gambling Quotes - Page 14

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

In Louisiana, we don't bet on football games, we bet on whether a politician is going to be indicted or not.

I'm crazy enough to believe in taking chances in every way, in making choices and gambling with your life. That's the kind of gambling I believe in.

Utah sells itself to Fortune 500 companies as a noncasino state where employers don't have to be concerned about absenteeism and other problems associated with gambling

Bankruptcies and addictions increase in areas with casinos

Crime goes up 10 percent due to the gambling by the third year after racinos or slot machines are open, and then it continues upward after that

A study in Illinois in the mid-1990s found that 65 percent of businesses were hurt by the proximity of gambling

27 percent to 55 percent of casino revenues come from problem or pathological gamblers

The ABCs of legalized gambling - addictions, bankruptcies and crime

Night and day a picture of the showcase of the Lame Novelty Company and its gambling content would seem to appear before my eyes. Then I realized that I could not rest content and continue practising to become a magician until I knew what those gambling gimmicks in that showcase click.

Of all mechanics, of all servile handycrafts-men, a gamester is the vilest. But yet, as many of the quality are of the profession, he is admitted amongst the politest company.

Bets at first were fool-traps, where the wise like spiders lay in ambush for the flies.

A young woman with long hair and a short white halter dress walks through the casino at the Riviera in Las Vegas at one in the morning. It was precisely this moment that made Play It As It Lays begin to tell itself to me.

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.

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.

Guessing has never been widely acclaimed as a good gambling strategy.

Footballers are an easy target. They are offered big lines of credit. Every sport is vulnerable; its such a big gambling industry, and there are problems with syndicates in other countries.

I paint inspired by my father, a well known character of the nightlife; a clandestine gambling capitalist and owner of three brothels in Argentina. I develop my work in a time that, from my point of view, is much more romantic than the present day.

The champion makes his own luck.

I am best described as just a guy with a very large bump of curiosity and a gambling instinct.

I am now eased in my finances and replenished in my wardrobe.

Gambling: A sure way to get nothing from something.

Gaming is a kind of tacit confession that the company engaged therein do in general exceed the bounds of their respective fortunes, and therefore they cast lots to determine upon whom the ruin shall at present fall, that the rest may be saved a little longer.

Remember, Lady Godiva put all she had on a horse and she lost her shirt!

It is a very curious thing about superstition. One would expect that the man who had once seen his morbid dreams were not fulfilled would abandon them for the future; but on the contrary they grow even stronger just as the love of gambling increases in a man who has once lost in a lottery.