Gambling Quotes - Page 23

• 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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• The gambling supply house catalog is distinctly not the safest place to learn about cheating devices, beware of catalog men.

  John Scarne

  Cheating, Men, House

  John Scarne (1980). “Scarne on dice”, Random House Value Pub

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• I am not surprised that there are gambling houses, like so many snares laid for human avarice; like abysses where many a man's money is engulfed and swallowed up without any hope of return; like frightful rocks against which the gamblers are thrown and perish.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Rocks, House

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• Las Vegas is a society of armed masturbators/gambling is the kicker here/sex is extra/weird trip for high rollers ... house-whores for winners, hand jobs for the bad luck crowd.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Jobs, Sex, Las Vegas

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.41, Vintage

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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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• Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Courage

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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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• '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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol and wild women. The other half I wasted.

  W. C. Fields

  Alcohol, Half, Wild Women

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

  Ambrose

  Law, Justice, Dice

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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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• 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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• Obesity is the result of a loss of self-control. Indeed, loss of self-control might be said to be the defining social (or anti-social) characteristic of our age: public drunkenness, excessive gambling, promiscuity and common-or-garden rudeness are all examples of our collective loss of self-control.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  Loss, Garden, Self

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If all our political and intellectual elite offers by way of a national culture is "pop music, gambling, fashionable clothes or television," then we can neither mount a convincing intellectual defense against our enemies, nor hope to integrate intelligent, inquiring, and unfulfilled Muslim youths young men principally, of course to our way of life.

  Anthony Daniels

  Intelligent, Men, Clothes

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