Gambling Quotes - Page 2

• Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his oar I would have stayed.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Home, Games

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• Gambling houses are temples where the most sordid and turbulent passions contend; there no spectator can be indifferent. A card or a small square of ivory interests more than the loss of an empire, or the ruin of an unoffending group of infants, and their nearest relatives.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Passion, Loss, Squares

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• We are already too dependent on gambling revenue. If we continue, we will soon be owned by them.

  Donald L. Carcieri

  Revenue, Dependent, Ifs

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• It's been a difficult thing because some great opportunities have come and I've just been holding my breath and praying... I'm basically gambling hoping something will come along this season and if not, I don't know what the future holds.

  Charisma Carpenter

  Opportunity, Praying, Difficult

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• When I played pool I was like a good psychiatrist. I cured em of all their daydreams and delusions.

  Rudolf Wanderone

  Ems, Pool, Daydreaming

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• Even as I approach the gambling hall, as soon as I hear, two rooms away, the jingle of money poured out on the table, I almost go into convulsions.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Two, Jingles, Tables

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• It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees.

  Mario Puzo

  Science, Men, Tree

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• She got to go to heaven four days early.

  William J. Clinton

  Heaven, Four

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• I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.

  Omar Sharif

  Passion, Years, Bridges

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• The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.

  Al Alvarez

  Games, Looks, Casinos

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• Gambling is not as destructive as war or as boring as pornography. It is not as immoral as business or as suicidal as watching television. And the percentages are better than religion.

  Mario Puzo

  War, Suicidal, Television

  Mario Puzo (1977). “Inside Las Vegas”

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• Oh, it's not really gambling when you never lose.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Loses

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• Bankruptcies and addictions increase in areas with casinos

  John Warren Kindt

  Addiction, Casinos, Increase

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• Just as outlawing alcohol did not work in the 1920s, current attempts to prohibit online gambling will not work, either.

  John Conyers

  Alcohol, Online, Currents

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• It is lost at dice, what ancient honor won.

  William Shakespeare

  Honor, Dice, Ancient

  William Shakespeare, Sir John Oldcastle, William Harness, Alexander Anderson (1848). “A Supplement to the Plays of William Shakespeare: Comprising the Seven Dramas, which Have Been Ascribed to His Pen, But which are Not Included with His Writings in Modern Editions”, p.147

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• If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Dog, Silly, Smoking

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

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• A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Selfishness, Essentials, Spirit

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.160

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• One way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on him.

  Jeffrey Bernard

  Horse, Way, Runaway

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• In most betting shops you will see three windows marked 'Bet Here', but only one window with the legend 'Pay Out'.

  Jeffrey Bernard

  Money, Luck, Three

  "On the track, sometime between courses, a race meeting is going on" by Paul Weaver, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2006.

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• In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and to keep them coming back. The longer they play, the more they lose, and in the end, we get it all.

  Robert De Niro

  Money, Play, Luck

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• The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

  Bret Harte

  Leadership, Sports, Money

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• With spots quadrangular of diamond form, ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, and spades, the emblems of untimely graves.

  William Cowper

  Heart, Typical, Clubs

  William Cowper, Robert Southey, William Harvey (1835). “The Works of William Cowper: Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations. With a Life of the Author”, p.42

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• Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.

  John Dewey

  Money, Stupid, Good Luck

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Murray G. Murphey (2008). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1922”, p.210, SIU Press

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• A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Money, Real, Sunset

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• Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Dog, Travel, Air

  George Bernard Shaw (1988). “Collected letters: 1926-1950”, Vintage

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