Gambling Quotes - Page 12

• As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

  Mel Brooks

  Mistake, Spinning Around, Long

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You're gambling with something vital. Most writers get smashed egos.

  Norman Mailer

  Ego

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• Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or other make a Venus-cast: now and then he indeed will make it twice and even thrice in succession. Are we going to be so feebleminded then as to aver that such a thing happened by the personal intervention of Venus rather than by pure luck?

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Play, Luck

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• Everyone has addictions and my problem is that I have 5,000 of them. If it's not drinking, it's gambling; if it's not gambling, it's eating anything from burgers, doughnuts to M&Ms. The only addiction I don't suffer from is chasing women.

  John Daly

  Drinking, Addiction, Suffering

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• Gambling operates under the premise that greed can be satisfied by luck.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Greed, Luck, Satisfied

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• The Devil invented gambling.

  Saint Augustine

  Devil

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• I'll tell thee what it says; it calls me villain, a treacherous husband, a cruel father, a false brother; one lost to nature and her charities; or to say all in one short word, it calls me - Gamester.

  George Edward Moore

  Brother, Husband, Father

  "The Gamester", Act II, scene 1, as quoted Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 306-07, 1922.

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

  Homer

  Mother, Monsters, Funny Simpsons

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• Beat him, eat him and get out.

  Richard Price

  Beats

  Richard Price (1993). “3 Screenplays”, p.43, Grove Press

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• European lotteries are the tax on fools.

  Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour

  Fool, Taxes, Lottery

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• Gambling is being subsidized by the taxpayers

  John Warren Kindt

  Taxpayers

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• If gambling were banned, those social costs would drop, tax revenues from consumer goods would increase, and money would be pumped into the productive economic sector

  John Warren Kindt

  Would Be, Cost, Economic

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• The lightning spread of 'Western-style' gambling overseas has increased the problems of addicted and problem gamblers, organized crime and alleged corruption in Asia and the Middle East

  John Warren Kindt

  Style, Lightning, Middle East

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• In permitting gambling enterprises to flourish in the United States and abroad, the United States undermines global socio-economic stability in contravention of its international obligations

  John Warren Kindt

  United States, Economic, Stability

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• Another threat to stability is the rise of Internet gambling

  John Warren Kindt

  Internet, Stability, Threat

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• The faster the gambling activity, the more highly addictive it is; and the more addictive the gambling activity is, the more revenue it will generate for the industry

  John Warren Kindt

  Faster, Revenue, Activity

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• Gambling addicts usually lose their focus at work and problem military gambling poses a national security threat

  John Warren Kindt

  Military, Focus, Problem

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• The military should get rid of video gambling devices on nearly 100 overseas bases and posts

  John Warren Kindt

  Military, Video, Should

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• Gambling is a bad deal for taxpayers

  John Warren Kindt

  Taxpayers, Deals

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• While advocates of legalized gambling say it brings in revenues needed for education and other uses, it actually has led to higher taxes, loss of jobs, economic disruption of non-gambling businesses, increased crime and higher social-welfare costs

  John Warren Kindt

  Jobs, Loss, Cost

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• Gambling drains the economy by taking money away from grocery stores and retail businesses and putting it in the hands of an industry that produces no product

  John Warren Kindt

  Hands, Retail, Economy

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• And as far as jobs go, for every one job that the casino creates, one is lost in the 35-mile feeder market

  John Warren Kindt

  Jobs, Casinos, Lost

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• For every three machines, you lose two jobs out of the surrounding economy because people are dumping their money on gambling

  John Warren Kindt

  Jobs, Two, People

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• If the government wants to stimulate the economy, it should outlaw gambling

  John Warren Kindt

  Government, Want, Economy

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• Gambling is a catalyst for economic downturn

  John Warren Kindt

  Economic, Catalyst, Downturn

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