Gambling Quotes - Page 25

• Snake eyes is a gambling term, and an animal term, too.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Eye

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• With Jane Birkin, we had a scene from a film called Jane B. by Agnès V. - a portrait I made in '87. We had a casino scene, surrealistic, in which we had some naked people gambling. Jane Birkin was the card dealer and I was the player. I had beautiful jewelery around me, and when I lost I would take the jewelery and say, Service - being very generous, because it was very expensive jewelery. I would say, Tip.

  Agnes Varda

  Beautiful, Player, People

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• I don't play golf competitively. I tell everybody that I cheat so they won't gamble with me. That's why you can't watch football. Everybody's gambling. They don't want to watch the game; they watch the spread.

  Jack Nicholson

  Football, Golf, Games

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Gambling makes boys selfish and cruel as well as men.

  Thomas Hughes

  Selfish, Boys, Men

  Thomas Hughes (1857). “School Days at Rugby”, p.199

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• My idea of gambling was walking through Central Park, whistling show tunes.

  Tommy Tune

  Ideas, Central Park, Tunes

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

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• Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.

  Barbara Jordan

  Food, Anger, Thinking

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• We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved.

  Ron Reagan

  Children, Cat, Pet

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• I will never be in the stock market. It's just gambling. I'm a gambler, but I'll gamble on the practicality of things.

  Jeremy Renner

  Gamble, Practicality

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• Every conscious act requires risk. Every conscious act requires decision. Put these two facts together and you realize that the secret to life is not to avoid gambling but to gamble well.

  Mike Caro

  Two, Decision, Risk

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• Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.

  Al Alvarez

  Games, Cards, Ems

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• Bond didn't defend the practice. He simply maintained that the more effort and ingenuity you put into gambling, the more you took out.

  Ian Fleming

  Practice, Effort, Ingenuity

  Ian Fleming (1961). “gilt-edged bonds”

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• It is a bad business, dealing in lottery tickets ... Riches got in such a hasty manner never wear well.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Riches, Tickets, Lottery Ticket

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1832). “Ladies' Magazine and Literary Gazette”, p.459

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• Horse sense is the instinct that keeps horses from betting on men.

  Josephine Tey

  Horse, Men, Instinct

  Josephine Tey (1954). “Three by Tey”

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• Everyone except gamblers knows that gambling never pays. ... Losing, like winning, only increased his determination to play.

  Firoozeh Dumas

  Determination, Winning, Play

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• To go out in a gondola at night is to reconstruct in one's imagination the true Venice, the Venice of the past alive with romance, elopements, abductions, revenged passions, intrigues, adulteries, denouncements, unaccountable deaths, gambling, lute playing and singing.

  Peggy Guggenheim

  Passion, Past, Night

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• In our most Puritan of society, gambling-like other pleasures-is either taxed, restricted to certain hours, or forbidden altogether. Yet the impulse to gamble remains an eternal aspect of the irrationality of man. It finds outlets in business, war, politics, in the formal overtures of the gambling casinos, and in the less ceremonious exchanges among individuals of differing opinions.

  Richard Arnold Epstein

  War, Men, Casinos

  "The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, Preface To The First Edition, 1977.

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• The essence of the phenomenon of gambling is decision making. The act of making a decision consists of selecting one course of action, or strategy, from among the set of admissible strategies.

  Richard Arnold Epstein

  Essence, Decision, Action

  "The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, 1977.

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• Coin matching and finger flashing were among the first formal games to arise in the history of gambling. The class of Morra games extends back to the pre-Christian era, although not until comparatively recent times have game-theoretic solutions been derived.

  Richard Arnold Epstein

  Christian, Games, Class

  "The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, 1977.

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• as long as there is a lottery, we the people of the United States must believe in getting something for nothing.

  Fay Faron

  Believe, People, Long

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• One starts gambling for a joke, out of curiosity, as a little challenge to fortune. One goes on, pricked to the quick by delusions, excited by vague desires that grow. Woe to you if you win anything - an AMBO, a small TERNO! It is all up with you, for your chance of winning seems certain. ... It is the devil's money going back to hell.

  Matilde Serao

  Winning, Challenges, Curiosity

  Matilde Serao (2017). “The Land of Cockayne (Matilde Serao) (Literary Thoughts Edition)”, p.304, epubli

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• If, instead of playing the horses, an individual chooses to play the market, that is his own affair. Only he must understand that speculating in stocks is gambling, not investing.

  Catherine Crook de Camp

  Horse, Play, Investing

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• Writings like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.

  M. John Harrison

  Writing, Unpredictable, Sporadic

  "M John Harrison: a life in writing" by Richard Lea, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2012.

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• Footballers are an easy target. They are offered big lines of credit. Every sport is vulnerable; its such a big gambling industry, and there are problems with syndicates in other countries.

  Gordon Taylor

  Sports, Country, Target

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• If I had been busted for drugs instead of gambling, I'd still be managing the Reds and baseball would be paying for my rehab.

  Pete Rose

  Baseball, Drug, Would Be

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• In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault if we ever know what ennui [boredom] is, or if we are ever driven to the miserable resource of gaming, which corrupts our dispositions, and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Boredom, Employment, World

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