Gambling Quotes - Page 4

Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.

If a man who can’t count finds a four leaf clover, is he lucky?

Unfortunately, gambling and winning don't often go hand-in-hand.

If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog.

If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?

If I had been busted for drugs instead of gambling, I'd still be managing the Reds and baseball would be paying for my rehab.

Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.

If there weren't luck involved, I would win every time.

The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dice box in hand, shaking the dice.

There is something in people; you might even call it a little bit of a gambling instinct… I tell people investing should be dull. It shouldn't be exciting. Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.

As words are not the things we speak about, and structure is the only link between them, structure becomes the only content of knowledge. If we gamble on verbal structures that have no observable empirical structures, such gambling can never give us any structural information about the world. Therefore such verbal structures are structurally obsolete, and if we believe in them, they induce delusions or other semantic disturbances.

I tell ya, gambling never agreed with me. Last week I went to the track and they shot my horse with the opening gun.

Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.

Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

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.

I wouldn't bet on a horse unless he came up to my house and told me to himself.

Suspense is torture ... but delightful--or there'd be no gambling in the world.

We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms. We must begin higher up, namely, in education.

You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.

Our old - fashioned system is better than any new - fangled voting machine. Not only is it guaranteed to work, but there is something I find appealing in putting a mark on a piece of paper for the candidate of your choice, as opposed to pulling a lever as if you were gambling on a slot machine in Las Vegas.

If you are going to bluff, make it a big one.

A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated.

Gaming is the destruction of all decorum; the prince forgets at it his dignity, and the lady her modesty.

Establishing a 0.03 percent Wall Street speculation fee, similar to what we had from 1914-1966, would dampen the dangerous level of speculation and gambling on Wall Street, encourage the financial sector to invest in the productive economy and reduce the deficit by more than $350 billion over 10 years.

There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.