Gambling Quotes - Page 2

• There is no gambling like politics.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Political, Politics

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5026, Delphi Classics

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• Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his oar I would have stayed.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Home, Games

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• A race track is a place where windows clean people.

  Danny Thomas

  Funny, Money, Humor

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• No horse can go as fast as the money you put on it.

  Earl Wilson

  Horse, Gamble

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• Sometimes a 3-1 favorite loses. That's why they call it gambling, and that's why they keep flipping over the cards.

  Richard Roeper

  Cards, Casinos, Gamer

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• It's been a difficult thing because some great opportunities have come and I've just been holding my breath and praying... I'm basically gambling hoping something will come along this season and if not, I don't know what the future holds.

  Charisma Carpenter

  Opportunity, Praying, Difficult

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• It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees.

  Mario Puzo

  Science, Men, Tree

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• I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.

  Omar Sharif

  Passion, Years, Bridges

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• I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.

  Vera Farmiga

  Thinking, Inspirational Football, Bad Attitude

  "A Film of One’s Own". Interview with Lynn Hirschberg, www.nytimes.com. September 3, 2006.

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• Even as I approach the gambling hall, as soon as I hear, two rooms away, the jingle of money poured out on the table, I almost go into convulsions.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Two, Jingles, Tables

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• Gambling is not as destructive as war or as boring as pornography. It is not as immoral as business or as suicidal as watching television. And the percentages are better than religion.

  Mario Puzo

  War, Suicidal, Television

  Mario Puzo (1977). “Inside Las Vegas”

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• Oh, it's not really gambling when you never lose.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Loses

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• Bankruptcies and addictions increase in areas with casinos

  John Warren Kindt

  Addiction, Casinos, Increase

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• Just as outlawing alcohol did not work in the 1920s, current attempts to prohibit online gambling will not work, either.

  John Conyers

  Alcohol, Online, Currents

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• A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Selfishness, Essentials, Spirit

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.160

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• It is lost at dice, what ancient honor won.

  William Shakespeare

  Honor, Dice, Ancient

  William Shakespeare, Sir John Oldcastle, William Harness, Alexander Anderson (1848). “A Supplement to the Plays of William Shakespeare: Comprising the Seven Dramas, which Have Been Ascribed to His Pen, But which are Not Included with His Writings in Modern Editions”, p.147

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• If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Dog, Silly, Smoking

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

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• One way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on him.

  Jeffrey Bernard

  Horse, Way, Runaway

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• In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and to keep them coming back. The longer they play, the more they lose, and in the end, we get it all.

  Robert De Niro

  Money, Play, Luck

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• In most betting shops you will see three windows marked 'Bet Here', but only one window with the legend 'Pay Out'.

  Jeffrey Bernard

  Money, Luck, Three

  "On the track, sometime between courses, a race meeting is going on" by Paul Weaver, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2006.

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• The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

  Bret Harte

  Leadership, Sports, Money

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• I've always played cards. I can't remember when there wasn't a gambling game going on somewhere, even if it was a craps game in a wheelbarrow on the backside of the racetrack.

  Wilford Brimley

  Games, Cards, Remember

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• Scobe's Fifth Law: All dealers wish they were doing something other than dealing. All dealers have plans to get out of dealing. Ten years later they have different plans to get out of dealing.

  Frank Scoblete

  Years, Law, Wish

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• Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Player, Men, Games

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.133, University of Georgia Press

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• Keep flax from fire, and youth from gaming.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Fire, Youth, Flax

  "Poor Richard's Almanack" by Benjamin Franklin, 1736.

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