Gambling Quotes - Page 17

• Remember this, folks - I am a Hillbilly, and I don't always Bet the same way I talk. Good advice is one thing, but smart gambling is quite another.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Smart, Advice, Way

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.62, Pan Macmillan

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• ...in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness -- faith in a system; and this made his damnation certain.

  Jack London

  Weakness, Damnation, Made

  Jack London (2015). “Jack London The Dover Reader”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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• Above all, he liked it that everything was one's own fault. There was only oneself to praise or blame. Luck was a servant and not a master. Luck had to be accepted with a shrug or taken advantage of up to the hilt. But it had to be understood and recognized for what it was and not confused with a faulty appreciation of the odds, for, at gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck. And luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared

  Ian Fleming

  Love, Appreciation, Mistake

  Ian Fleming (1953). “Casino Royale”

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• Defeat in itself was part and parcel of the great gambling game of politics. A man who could not accept it and try again was not of the stuff of which leaders are made.

  Agnes Sligh Turnbull

  Leadership, Women, Games

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• Trust everyone, but always cut the cards.

  Benny Binion

  Cutting, Cards

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• This would have been a great game to watch if we didn't have any money on it.

  Norm MacDonald

  Games, Watches, Has Beens

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

  Peter Singer

  Hamburgers, Agribusiness, Sake

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• Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Heartbreak, Differences

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.366, A&C Black

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• Forests and meat animals compete for the same land. The prodigious appetite of the affluent nations for meat means that agribusiness can pay more than those who want to preserve or restore the forest. We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet – for the sake of hamburgers

  Peter Singer

  Mean, Animal, Land

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• One of the commonest things to do with savings is to lend them to some Government. In view of the fact that the bulk of the public expenditure of most civilized Governments consists in payment for past wars or preparation for future wars, the man who lends his money to a Government is in the same position as the bad men in Shakespeare who hire murderers. The net result of the man's economical habits is to increase the armed forces of the State to which he lends his savings. Obviously it would be better if he spent the money, even if he spent it in drink or gambling.

  Bertrand Russell

  War, Men, Past

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “In Praise of Idleness”, p.5, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I wanted Raging Bull. I wanted Casino. I got Rocky and Bullwinkle. But that's OK, because I still get to tell people I've worked with Robert DeNiro.

  Rene Russo

  People, Bulls, Casinos

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• They head the list of bad to bet on: But I insist they're worse to get on

  Richard Armour

  Lists, Betting

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• 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.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Hands, Evil, Wish

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”, p.126

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• I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Sports, Pain, Long

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• You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

  James Thurber

  Inspirational, Funny, Fall

  New Yorker 29 Apr. 1939 "The Bear Who Let It Alone"

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• With sport went beer drinking and gambling - until recently restricted by the wowsers, but part of that code of mateship of men, that necessity constantly to demonstrate masculine sameness, which provided one of the most flattening sources of uniformity.

  Donald Horne

  Sports, Drinking, Beer

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• 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.

  Michael Franzese

  People, Alcohol, Over You

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• I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives. I'm not talking about the short-term gratification of pleasures like sex, drugs or gambling (though I'm not knocking them), but something that will bring true and lasting happiness. The kind that sticks.

  Dalai Lama

  Life, Happiness, Spiritual

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• 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.

  Loring M. Black, Jr.

  Running, Fear, Atheism

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• 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.

  Lawrence Tierney

  Winning, Squares, White

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• But the gambling reasoner is incorrigible: if he would but take to squaring the circle, what a load of misery would be saved.

  Augustus De Morgan

  Circles, Would Be, Misery

  "A Budget of Paradoxes".

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• If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with big technology, either to push it forward or to stop it, is gambling in human lives.

  Freeman Dyson

  Technology, Damnation, Would Be

  1979 Disturbing the Universe, ch.1.

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• 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.

  George Raft

  Horse, Wealth

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

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• I could have gone for gambling or sex addiction,...But I went for obesity because of the tremendous impact it has.

  Nora Volkow

  Sex, Impact, Addiction

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• 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.

  Joan Didion

  Morning, Vegas, Hair

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