Gambling Quotes - Page 17

• The outside wold pressures you into a mold, but if you don't accept that - you gamble with life. Call it gambling.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Risk, Mold, Pressure

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• I'll give you a simple formula for straightening out the problems of the United States. First, you tax the churches. You take the tax off of capital gains and the tax off of savings. You decriminalize all and tax them same way as you do alcohol. You decriminalize . You make gambling legal. That will put the budget back on the road to recovery, and you'll have plenty of tax revenue coming in for all of your social programs, and to run the army.

  Frank Zappa

  Running, Recovery, Army

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• Leftist big-government policies have been disastrous for black America just as they were in the countries that most Hispanics emigrated from. But like the gambling addict who keeps gambling the more he loses, those addicted to government entitlements keep increasing the size of the government even as their situation worsens.

  Dennis Prager

  Country, Government, America

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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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• Gambling: A sure way to get nothing from something.

  Wilson Mizner

  Way

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• Gambling is a most foolish and imprudent pursuit.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Foolish, Pursuit

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2007). “The Gambler”, p.18, Modern Library

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• Personally I don't think day traders are speculating, because traditional speculation requires some market knowledge. They are, instead, gambling, which doesn't.

  Arthur Levitt Jr

  Thinking, Traders, Speculation

  "Levitt to investors: get a clue" by Craig Bicknell, www.wired.com. May 4, 1999.

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• Of course, San Diego chooses not to regard the two cities as one. Talk about alter ego: Tijuana was created by the lust of San Diego. Everything that was illegal in San Diego was permitted in Tijuana. When boxing was illegal in San Diego, there were boxing matches in Tijuana; when gambling was illegal, there was always Tijuana.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Cities, Two, Boxing

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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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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• 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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• Nearly everything that was fun, of course, was also a little dangerous: riding roller coasters, skydiving, gambling, sex.

  Dean Koontz

  Sex, Fun, Riding

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel”, p.50, Bantam

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• All gambling is the telling of a fortune, but of a monstrously depleted fortune, empty of everything save one numerical circumstance, shorn of all such richness as a voyage across the water, a fair man that loves you, a dark woman that means you harm.

  Rebecca West

  Love You, Mean, Dark

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Thinking Reed”, p.193, Open Road Media

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

  Ada Leverson

  Suspense, World, Torture

  Ada Leverson (1907). “The Twelfth Hour”

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

  Pete Rose

  Winning, Hands, Hand In Hand

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• 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.

  Jean Chretien

  Vegas, Choices, Voting

  Jean Chretien (2010). “My Years as Prime Minister”, p.287, Vintage Canada

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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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• Someone is going to figure out how to make this work and when they do, all the anti-gambling, over-regulating authoritarian governments will be exposed as emperors without clothes. It might not be obvious that this is even happening at first, since these systems are by definition stealthy affairs.

  Calvin Ayre

  Clothes, Government, Definitions

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• It is far best for the Christian never to see some things, so he will never want them. The old-fashioned Christian who will not have playing cards in his house will never learn to gamble with them. One who never sees, in movies and night clubs or elsewhere, half-clothed girls, drinking, smoking, gambling, petting, making love to many men, is likely to miss being led into that kind of life by these sirens of sin. It is the Devil's game to make people think it necessary for people to "know the ways of the world.

  John R. Rice

  Girl, Christian, Drinking

  John R. Rice (2000). “The Ruin of a Christian”, p.100, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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• He said, Son, I've made a life out of readin' people's faces, and knowin' what their cards were by the way they held their eyes.

  Kenny Rogers

  Eye, Son, People

  Song: The Gambler

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• There is a gambling element to being somebody who is going to take on the job of constantly trying to represent and prop up people who might be somewhat shady. That notion is probably part of how they got the rap. But, I have to find the balance of being colorful, being at times despicable, and also being somebody who does believe in something.

  Greg Kinnear

  Jobs, Rap, Believe

  "Greg Kinnear Talks RAKE, His Approach to the Edgy Role, Similarity to the Australian Series, and More". Interview, collider.com. January 23, 2014.

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• Jim Bakker spells his name with two k's because three would be too obvious.

  Bill Maher

  Hypocrite, Names, Two

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• Horse racing is animated roulette.

  Roger Kahn

  Money, Horse, Racing

  Roger Kahn (2012). “Games We Used to Play: A Lover's Quarrel with the World of Sport”, p.41, Diversion Books

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• Of all mechanics, of all servile handycrafts-men, a gamester is the vilest. But yet, as many of the quality are of the profession, he is admitted amongst the politest company.

  John Gay

  Men, Quality, Mechanic

  John Gay (2013). “The Beggar's Opera and Polly”, p.95, OUP Oxford

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• Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Luck, Wheels

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.282, Library of America

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• Crime is based upon need, making money.  People sell drugs to make money.  But if everybody is cared for, they don't sell drugs and if there's no money you can't sell drugs even if you wanted to.  There'd be no such thing as gambling, prostitution, or selling out, or paying off a senator or a governor.  There are no senators, there are no governors so you can't pay them off.  If you take away the basis or the condition that generate abhorrent behavior, you don't have abhorrent behavior.

  Jacque Fresco

  Money, Caring, People

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