Gambling Quotes - Page 18

• Play is hand-to-hand encounter with Fate.

  Anatole France

  Fate, Hands, Play

  Anatole France (1924). “The Works of Anatole France”

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• There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Power, Politics, Politician

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• You know what's sad about this? Not the gambling, but the best way to reach college athletes is the Cartoon Network.

  Jay Leno

  Football, Athlete, College

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• Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Luck, Wheels

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.282, Library of America

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• If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it?

  Ian Botham

  Change, Three, Hundred

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• Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

  Hugh Walpole

  Inspirational, Courage, Work

  Hugh Walpole (2007). “Fortitude”, p.350, 1st World Publishing

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• In convenience gambling scenarios, discretionary spending and nondiscretionary addicted gambling dollars were transferred from other forms of consumer expenditures

  John Warren Kindt

  Dollars, Form, Convenience

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• Gambling is not a vice, it is an expression of our humanness. We gamble. Some do it at the gaming table, some do not. You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Fun, Winning, Humanness Is

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “The Passion”, p.73, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Local competing businesses were thereby losing revenue.

  John Warren Kindt

  Losing, Competing, Revenue

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• In short, they were gambling on their luck, and luck is not to be coerced.

  Albert Camus

  Luck

  Albert Camus (1948). “The Plague”, Vintage

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• Horse racing is animated roulette.

  Roger Kahn

  Money, Horse, Racing

  Roger Kahn (2012). “Games We Used to Play: A Lover's Quarrel with the World of Sport”, p.41, Diversion Books

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• Of all mechanics, of all servile handycrafts-men, a gamester is the vilest. But yet, as many of the quality are of the profession, he is admitted amongst the politest company.

  John Gay

  Men, Quality, Mechanic

  John Gay (2013). “The Beggar's Opera and Polly”, p.95, OUP Oxford

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• Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.

  Johnny Depp

  Romantic, Height, Ten

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• I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.

  Bette Davis

  Movie, Doe, Actors

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

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• Were it good
  To set the exact wealth of all our states
  All at one cast? to set so rich a main
  On the nice hazard of one doubtful hour?
  It were not good.

  William Shakespeare

  War, Nice, Risk

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Henry IV”, p.61, Courier Corporation

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• Grantland Rice can go to hell as far as I'm concerned.

  Gene Autry

  Work, Hell, Concerned

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• I think a lot of people like to gamble, and they don't want to go to the casino to gamble. Sometimes they want to do it in the privacy of their home. They can't concentrate the way they want to in a gambling casino.

  Larry Holmes

  Home, Thinking, People

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• Love is reckless; not reason. Reason seeks a profit. Loves comes on strong, consuming herself unabashed. Yet in the midst of suffering love proceeds like a millstone, hard surfaced and straight forward. Having died to self interest, she risks everything and asks for nothing. Love gambles away every gift God bestows. Without cause God gave us Being; without cause give it back again. Gambling yourself away is beyond any religion. Religion seeks grace and favor, but those who gamble these away are God's favorites, for they neither put God to the test nor knock at the door of gain and loss.

  Rumi

  Strong, Buddhist, Loss

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “Love Is Reckless”

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• The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Dog, Drinking, Men

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• Statistics prove that teenage Internet gambling is the fastest growing addiction of the day, akin to drug and alcohol abuse in the 1930s. It's pernicious, it's evil, it's certainly one that feeds on those who are the weakest members of society - and that's the young and the poor.

  David Robertson

  Teenage, Evil, Addiction

  "Study: Internet gambling stakes are high". www.cnn.com. March 17, 2002.

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• War is the gambling table of governments, and citizens the dupes of the game.

  Thomas Paine

  War, Government, Games

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• It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.

  Andy Warhol

  Running, Commercial Art, America

  Andy Warhol (2015). “America”, p.12, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• It is a very curious thing about superstition. One would expect that the man who had once seen his morbid dreams were not fulfilled would abandon them for the future; but on the contrary they grow even stronger just as the love of gambling increases in a man who has once lost in a lottery.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Dream, Men, Stronger

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• It was a place of sin, loose women, whiskey and gambling. It was no place for a good Presbyterian, and I did not long remain one.

  Mark Twain

  Long, Whiskey, Sin

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• Our whole life is solving puzzles.

  Erno Rubik

  Jigsaw Puzzles, Cubes, Life Is

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