Bookmakers Quotes

• I hadn't been in Vegas 20 minutes when I got word that the bookmakers were offering three to one that Frank wouldn't show for my wedding.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Wedding, Vegas, Offering

  16 Copy quote

• I am not one of the people who believe that the main reason why a chap becomes a bookmaker is because he is too scared to steal and too heavy to become a jockey.

  Noel Whitcomb

  Believe, Gambling, People

  4 Copy quote

• I'd seen all the great entertainers by the time I was 14 or 15. My mother was artistic. My father was a bookmaker, so he had access to all those nightclubs, and he was smitten by certain artists, and we would go see them. We'd see comics like Sid Caesar and Milton Berle - those kind of artists - many of whom I worked with later in my life.

  Lainie Kazan

  Mother, Father, Artist

  5 Copy quote

• I'll tell you what you can expect from an Irishman named Wellington whose father was a bookmaker. You can expect that anything he says or writes may be repeated aloud in your own home in front of your children. You can believe he was taught to love and respect all mankind, but to fear no man.

  Wellington Mara

  Children, Father, Believe

  4 Copy quote

• A combination of the qualities of the scholar, the master cook, the painter, the gastronomer, the sportsman and the pantologist, assisted by the skill of the bookmaker and etcher, will be required to compose the cookbook par excellence.

  George Ellwanger

  Skills, Cooking, Excellence

  4 Copy quote