Gambling Quotes - Page 15

It is a bad business, dealing in lottery tickets ... Riches got in such a hasty manner never wear well.

One starts gambling for a joke, out of curiosity, as a little challenge to fortune. One goes on, pricked to the quick by delusions, excited by vague desires that grow. Woe to you if you win anything - an AMBO, a small TERNO! It is all up with you, for your chance of winning seems certain. ... It is the devil's money going back to hell.

I find the only thing that really stands up, better than gambling, better than booze, better than women, is reading.

I don't see how you have the nerve to oppose this bill when you run the biggest gambling business in the world - gambling on the hereafter.

I don’t like gambling very much. I don’t like being at the mercy of those little white squares that roll around and decide whether you win or lose. I like to have the say-so myself.

For every slot machine you add, you lose one job per year from the consumer economy

There would be economic disruption in Omaha from expanded gambling...You would just be moving Chernobyl closer to the population center

There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.

Grantland Rice can go to hell as far as I'm concerned.

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.

The only gambling tip which amounts to anything is to keep out of the game.

The pain of losing is diverting. So is the thrill of winning. Winning, however, is lonelier, as those you've won money from are not likely to commiserate with you. Winning takes getting used to.

If you mind losing more than you enjoy winning, don't bet.

Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.

When I talk about drugs and alcohol, I'm talking about sex addiction, gambling addiction, eating addiction, throwing-up addiction. I'm not talking about mental illness.

If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.

Were it good To set the exact wealth of all our states All at one cast? to set so rich a main On the nice hazard of one doubtful hour? It were not good.

Trading is more or less like betting or gambling, but only without the pleasure show of the game.

Life is nothing but a bet that in the end everyone is doomed to lose. So you'd better get used!

If you don't like trading, gambling and betting, then you don't like living.

Judged by the dollars spent, gambling is now more popular in America than baseball, the movies, and Disneyland-combined.

Cinema is gambling. It is better to gamble on a unique film even if it seems like suicide.

Our public credit is good, but the abundance of paper has produced a spirit of gambling in the funds, which has laid up our ships at the wharves as too slow instruments of profit, and has even disarmed the hand of the tailor of his needle and thimble. They say the evil will cure itself. I wish it may; but I have rarely seen a gamester cured, even by the disasters of his vocation.

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.

There is no moral difference between gambling at cards or in lotteries or on the race track and gambling in the stock market. One method is just pernicious to the body politic as the other kind.