Gambling Quotes - Page 23

• To play billiards well was a sign of an ill-spent youth

  Herbert Spencer

  Play, Billiards, Youth

  Quoted in Duncan Life and Letters of Spencer, ch.20. Robert Louis Stevenson has also been credited with this observation.

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• I would say, stay the hell away from the party scene. Anything you put in front of your goal, and especially something like that, whether it's too much gambling, too much food, too much (sic) cold beers on the weekend - anything that you put in front of the prize is going to end up getting in the way and hurting you in the end.

  Brad Renfro

  Hurt, Party, Beer

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

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• It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

  Andre Gide

  Life, Travel, Adventure

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  Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Movie, Beautiful, Cinema

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You're gonna lose some ball games and you're gonna win some ball games and that's about it.

  Sparky Anderson

  Winning, Games, Balls

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• You know, there's a 12 step program for gambling. You should look into that. Twelve steps. Coyote laughed. I'll bet I can do it in six.

  Christopher Moore

  Six, Steps, Twelve

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• Never show anger at slight,Tell nothing.Earn Respect from everyone by deeds,not Words.Respect the members of your Blood Family.Gambling was Recreation,Not a way to earn a Living.Love your Father,your Mother, your Sister but beware of Loving any other Woman than your Wife.And a Wife was a woman who bore your Children.And once that happened to You,your Life was Forfeit to give them their daily bread

  Mario Puzo

  Mother, Children, Father

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• No use gambling if you can't lose your head once in a while.

  Larry Merchant

  Use, Ifs, Loses

  Larry Merchant (1973). “The national football lottery”

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• Las Vegas was like that. There was a visceral attraction here. The bold promise of money and sex. But the first was a broken promise, a mirage, and the second was fraught with danger, expense, physical and mental risk. It was where the real gambling took place in this town.

  Michael Connelly

  Sex, Real, Vegas

  Michael Connelly (2011). “Michael Connelly - The Harry Bosch Collection (ebook)”, p.922, Hachette UK

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• Ain't only three things to gambling: knowing the 60-40 end of the proposition, money management, and knowing yourself.

  Puggy Pearson

  Knowing, Three, Investing

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• Many players will not improve because they cannot bear self-knowledge.

  David Mamet

  Player, Self, Bears

  David Mamet (1986). “Writing in restaurants”, Viking Adult

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• Betting stimulates the caring glands. That is where there is so much caring at the racetrack.

  Larry Merchant

  Caring, Glands, Betting

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• Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today's winners are tomorrow's blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Dumb, Victory, Fleeting

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• There's an electrical thing about movies.

  Oliver Stone

  Movie, Actors, Electrical

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• I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Funeral, Sound, Doe

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• But to fight something, you really have to try to understand its motivations—particularly when the something you’re fighting holds most of the cards, the deck is stacked against you, and the whole gambling hall is on fire and filled with thugs.

  Greg Bear

  Motivation, Fighting, Thug

  Greg Bear (2011). “Hull Zero Three”, p.89, Hachette UK

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• Hold'em - like life itself - has its defining moment. It's the flop. When you see the flop, you're looking at 71 percent of your hand, and the cost is only a single round of betting.

  Lou Krieger

  Hands, Cost, Ems

  Lou Krieger (2000). “Hold'em Excellence: From Beginner to Winner”, p.61, ConJelCo LLC

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• Cinema is gambling. It is better to gamble on a unique film even if it seems like suicide.

  Thomas Langmann

  Suicide, Unique, Cinema

  "Oscars Q&A: Thomas Langmann On The Creative Gamble Of Making 'The Artist'". Interview with Scott Timberg, deadline.com. February 4, 2012.

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• All gamblers are paranoid, though they call it superstition.

  Mario Puzo

  Superstitions, Paranoid

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• You cheated!” He looked at her, wide-eyed with feigned outrage. “I beg your pardon. If you were a man, I would call you out for that accusation.” “And I assure you, my lord, that I would ride forth victoriously on behalf of truth, humility, and righteousness.” “Are you quoting the Bible to me?” “Indeed,” she said primly, the portrait of piousness. “While gambling.” “What better location to attempt to reform one such as you?

  Sarah MacLean

  Humility, Men, Portraits

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• You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds all the cards of the deck in its hand, we have to guess the winning cards of life, our lives.

  Jose Saramago

  Winning, Hands, Giving

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• 'Prop trading' is just a fancy term for banks gambling in the market for their own profit.

  Matt Taibbi

  Fancy, Profit, Term

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• A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Movie, Cake, Mines

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• Dice have their laws, which the courts of justice cannot undo.

  Ambrose

  Law, Justice, Dice

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• A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

  Jean Cocteau

  Art, Film, Fountain

  Esquire magazine, February 1961.

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