Gambling Quotes - Page 11

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

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Horse, Gun, Track

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• I'm the leader of the platoon and I run gambling and lotteries, dances and I sell beer illegally. I'm a con man and I'm thoroughly lovable.

  Steve Martin

  Running, Beer, Men

  "Comedians pull rank in 'Sgt. Bilko'" by Paul Vercammen, www.cnn.com. March 29, 1996.

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• I'll tell you how to beat the gambling in Las Vegas. When you get off the airplane, walk right into the propeller.

  Henny Youngman

  Airplane, Vegas, Beats

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

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• Gambling has held human beings in thrall for millennia. It has been engaged in everywhere, from the dregs of society to the most respectable circles.

  Peter L. Bernstein

  Circles, Dregs, Respectable

  Peter L. Bernstein (2012). “Peter L. Bernstein Classics Collection: Capital Ideas, Against the Gods, The Power of Gold and Capital Ideas Evolving”, p.321, John Wiley & Sons

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• There is a lure in power. It can get into a man's blood just as gambling and lust for money have been known to do

  Harry S. Truman

  Men, Blood, Lust

  Harry S. Truman, Robert H. Ferrell (1997). “Off the Record: The Private Papers of Harry S. Truman”, p.177, University of Missouri Press

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• 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 .

  Karl Marx

  Debt, Joints, Kind

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.827, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Gambling is so pervasive in Nevada that maybe the state should just go the whole hog. There'd be gum machines that dispensed chewing tobacco if you lost. You could gamble for the toilet paper in public bathroom stalls. And fill out Keno cards in an attempt to win cancer therapy at the hospital.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Cancer, Winning, Machines

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• I think that gambling is a synthetic experience and that if you have any balls you gamble with your life. I have. So can everybody else.

  William Monahan

  Thinking, Balls, Synthetic

  Source: collider.com

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• You start doing the addictive behavior to feel good and then your receptors get overloaded with dopamine, then you stop doing the addictive thing and some of the receptors have shut down and you don't have enough dopamine to feel good. So then you feel bad and go back to the addictive behavior to get more dopamine. The strange thing is that it works with what we think of as uppers and downers and whatever you call gambling - sidewaysers.

  Bill Nye

  Thinking, Feel Good, Down And

  "Bill Nye: Cell phones aren't making us dumb". Interview with Wilson Rothman, www.nbcnews.com. March 23, 2010.

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• The humblest observer who goes to the mines sees and says that gold-digging is of the character of a lottery; the gold thus obtained is not the same thing with the wages of honest toil. But, practically, he forgets what he has seen, for he has seen only the fact, not the principle, and goes into trade there, that is, buys a ticket in what commonly proves another lottery, where the fact is not so obvious.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Character, Gold, Toil

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.413, Simon and Schuster

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• I decided I didn't want to be a slave to any passion any more except for my work, i had too many passions - bridge, horses, gambling. I want to live a different kind of life, be with my family more because I didn't give them enough time.

  Omar Sharif

  Life, Horse, Passion

  "Biography/ Mini Bio". www.imdb.com.

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• Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.

  Federico Fellini

  Movie, Would Be, Film

  The Atlantic, December 1965.

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• ...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend the disorderliness, friction, and unpredictability that pesters life; in their desire for a fresh start in a tidy habitat, germ-free and secured by angels, religious multitudes are gambling the only life they may ever have on a dark horse in a race that has no finish line.

  Tom Robbins

  Life, Religious, Horse

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.356, Bantam

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• The next best thing to a winning day at the track is a losing day.

  Virginia Clinton Kelley

  Winning, Track, Next

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• All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment.

  Richard Whately

  Desire, Profit, Expenses

  Richard Whately, Launcelot John George Downing DOWDALL (1848). “Elements of Logic ... Ninth edition, revised”, p.364

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• Historically, the stock market is like a gambling casino with the odds in your favor. Over the long pull, stocks are given something like nine and a half to ten percent compounded per year. The banks have probably given you something in the order of four to five.

  Burton Malkiel

  Odds, Order, Years

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• Many young people adopt pleasures for which they have not the least taste, only because they are called by that name.... You mustallow that drunkenness, which is equally destructive to body and mind, is a fine pleasure. Gaming, that draws you into a thousand scraps, leaves you penniless, and gives you the air and manners of an outrageous madman, is another most exquisite pleasure, is it not? As to running after women, the consequences of that vice are only the loss of one's nose, the total destruction of health, and, not unfrequently, the being run through the body.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Running, Drinking, Loss

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• Most of us do not consciously look at movies.

  Roger Ebert

  Movie, Looks, Actors

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Awake in the Dark: The Best of Roger Ebert”, p.351, University of Chicago Press

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• But Geology carries the day: it is like the pleasure of gambling, speculating, on first arriving, what the rocks may be; I often mentally cry out 3 to 1 Tertiary against primitive; but the latter have hitherto won all the bets.

  Charles Darwin

  Rocks, Arriving, May

  Charles Darwin, Frederick Burkhardt, Sydney Smith (1985). “The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: 1821-1836”, p.232, Cambridge University Press

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• Gaming is a kind of tacit confession that the company engaged therein do in general exceed the bounds of their respective fortunes, and therefore they cast lots to determine upon whom the ruin shall at present fall, that the rest may be saved a little longer.

  William Blackstone

  Fall, May, Littles

  Sir William Blackstone (1841). “Commentaries on the laws of England: in four books ; with an analysis of the work”

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• casino owners spoke more loudly than any of the other kings of industry to defend their contribution to society. They could speak more loudly because theirs was the purest activity of civilized man. They had transcended the need for a product. They could maintain and advance life with machines that made nothing but money.

  Jane Rule

  Kings, Men, Needs

  Jane Rule (2013). “Desert of the Heart: A Novel”, p.223, Open Road Media

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• I'm crazy enough to believe in taking chances in every way, in making choices and gambling with your life. That's the kind of gambling I believe in.

  Lauren Bacall

  Crazy, Believe, Choices

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• There is not a single truth of science upon which we ought to bet more than about a million of millions to one.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Truth, Science, Ought

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1974). “Collected Papers”, p.62, Harvard University Press

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• The familiarities of the gaming-table contribute very much to the decay of politeness ... The pouts and quarrels that naturally arise from disputes must put an end to all complaisance, or even good will towards one another.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Decay, Tables, Disputes

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• Guessing has never been widely acclaimed as a good gambling strategy.

  Jan Garavaglia

  Guessing, Strategy

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