Gambling Quotes - Page 2

If I had the money and the drinking capacity, I'd probably live at a roulette table and let my life go to hell.

I never go looking for a sucker. I look for a Champion and make a sucker of of him.

Every great film should seem new every time you see it.

Ain't only three things to gambling: knowing the 60-40 end of the proposition, money management, and knowing yourself.

Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.

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

They are the new breed of slot machine-colorful, fancy, exciting, wonderful...and deadly.

Trust everyone, but always cut the cards.

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

One way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on him.

Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets.

The national debt has given rise to joint stock companies, to dealings in negotiable effects of all kinds, and to agiotage , in a word to stock-exchange gambling and the modern bankocracy .

There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.

No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.

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.

I've been on such a losing streak that if I had been around I would have taken General Custer and given points.

Aces are larger than life and greater than mountains.

Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.

I must have gone through $10 million during my career. Part of the loot went for gambling, part for horses and part for women. The rest I spent foolishly.

Granted, I could go out and lose everything (by) gambling and drinking, but there's no sense in denying it. It's in my blood.

Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.

Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of "speculation"; but which ought to be called Gambling.

I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.

Everybody's a filmmaker today.

To play billiards well was a sign of an ill-spent youth