Gambling Quotes - Page 21

• Somebody tell my fam I got a gambling problem.

  Ludacris

  Family, Problem

  Song: Put Your Money

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• It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Casinos, Financial, Should

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.143, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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

  William C. Brown

  Life Is, Used, Ends

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• If I were a gambling man I would put all my money on there not being anything other than this universe.

  Steve Albini

  Men, Ifs, Universe

  Interview with Ryan Kohls, whatiwannaknowdotcom.wordpress.com. June 3, 2011.

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• Gambling is legal and betting is legal, for what I bet.

  Michael Jordan

  Betting

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

  Amarillo Slim

  Competition, Conflict, Negotiation

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• When governments legalize and encourage gambling, they are creating addictions among their citizens

  John Warren Kindt

  Creating, Government, Addiction

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• I know a little bit about handicapping. If the horse has an IV, you want to stay - away from it.

  Paula Poundstone

  Horse, Want, Littles

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• The world is more than a game of cards. History is more than a record of gambling operations.

  Arthur Twining Hadley

  Success, Games, Cards

  Arthur Twining Hadley (1807). “Baccalaureate Addresses, and Other Talks on Kindred Themes”, p.54

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• Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

  William Wycherley

  Love, Marriage, Littles

  William Wycherley, Marvin T. Herrick (1970). “The Country Wife”, p.47, Barron's Educational Series

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• The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Funny, Movie, Humor

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

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• I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, 'You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit.' As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Running, Block

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• I am not one of the people who believe that the main reason why a chap becomes a bookmaker is because he is too scared to steal and too heavy to become a jockey.

  Noel Whitcomb

  Believe, People, Jockeys

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• Las Vegas is a major family destination. Nevada casinos have become American family values now. It's considered just fine to go into one of these windowless scary gambling-malls, drink yourself silly, lose your ass at roulette, and then go ogle showgirls with breast implants. Republicans do this now. Working-class folks do it in polyester stretch pants. It's normal.

  Bruce Sterling

  Silly, Vegas, Class

  "Greetings from Burning Man!". www.wired.com. November 01, 1996.

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• I understand it is 13-8 against Egon Ronay publishing a Good Betting Shop Food Guide by 1997.

  Clement Freud

  Guides, Shops, Publishing

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

  Eubie Blake

  Horse, House, Betting

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• In betting on races, there are two elements that are never lacking - hope as hope, and an incomplete recollection of the past.

  E. V. Lucas

  Past, Race, Two

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• It's one thing to ask your bank manager for an overdraft to buy 500 begonias for the borders in Haslemere, but quite another to seek financial succour to avail oneself of the 5-2 they're offering on lie de Bourbon for the St Leger.

  Jeffrey Bernard

  Lying, Offering, Borders

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• It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.

  Joseph de Maistre

  Creativity, Men, Imagination

  Joseph de Maistre (2017). “The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions: Studies on Sovereignty, Religion and Enlightenment”, p.128, Routledge

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• There are three ways to spoil a public man: women, gambling, and listening to experts. The first is the pleasantest, the second is the fastest, but the third is the most certain.

  Georges Pompidou

  Men, Listening, Experts

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• Night and day a picture of the showcase of the Lame Novelty Company and its gambling content would seem to appear before my eyes. Then I realized that I could not rest content and continue practising to become a magician until I knew what those gambling gimmicks in that showcase click.

  John Scarne

  Eye, Night, Gimmicks

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• I haven't had sex in eight months. To be honest, I now prefer to go bowling.

  Lil' Kim

  Sex, Eight, Months

  "Interview: the wrath of Lil Kim". Interview with Michael Cragg, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2013.

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• We're gambling on our vision, and we would rather do that than make "me too" products. Let some other companies do that. For us, it's always the next dream.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Dream

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.87, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Our whole Depression was brought on by gambling, not in the stock market alone but in expanding and borrowing and going in debt... all just to make some easy money quick.

  Will Rogers

  Debt, Great Depression, Easy

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• Gambling is part of the human condition. I love it. I have the best time gambling. I've been winning fortunes, and I've been losing them.

  Jerry Lewis

  Winning, Losing, Fortune

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