Gambling Quotes - Page 7

• Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Travel, Winning, Losing

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• Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.

  Steven Wright

  Night, People, House

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• If you bet on a horse, that's gambling. If you bet you can make three spades, that's entertainment. If you bet cotton will go up three points, that's business. See the difference?

  Blackie Sherrod

  Horse, Differences, Three

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• Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

  Will Rogers

  Advice, Saving, Gamer

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• No dog can go as fast as the money you bet on him.

  Bud Flanagan

  Dog, Gamble, Betting

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• In fact, a University of Connecticut study showed that as many as three in four pre-teens and teens who are exposed to Internet gambling become addicted.

  Spencer Bachus

  Three, Teens, Four

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• He had the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Christian, Humorous

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.55, St. Martin's Press

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• When your opponent's sittin' there holdin' all the aces, there's only one thing to do: kick over the table.

  Dean Martin

  Tables, Opponents, Aces

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• Putting a stop to internet gambling is a necessary reform that targets flagrant violations of state and federal laws.

  John Shadegg

  Law, Target, Reform

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• Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.

  William Ralph Inge

  Disease, Barbarians, Civilized

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• A dollar won is twice as sweet as a dollar earned.

  Paul Newman

  Sweet, Money, Humorous

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• Gambling undermines the moral fiber of society.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Moral Fiber, Gamble, Fiber

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• Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Property, Gamble

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.93

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• A sure thing is no fun.

  Leonard Marx

  Fun, Sure Thing

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• Gambling is a principle inherent in human nature.

  Edmund Burke

  Principles, Human Nature, Inherent

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• Scobe's Tenth Law: In all endeavors, in all aspects of life, there are more horses asses than horses!

  Frank Scoblete

  Horse, Law, Ass

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• What more than madness reigns, when one short sitting many hundreds drains.

  Sir John Davies

  Sitting, Reign, Madness

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• The only difference between a winner and a loser is character.

  Nick Dandolos

  Character, Differences, Loser

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• The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dice box in hand, shaking the dice.

  Denis Diderot

  Strong, Hands, Years

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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• Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Men, Cards, Equal

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• Without gambling, I would not exist.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward S”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• Diligence is the mother of good luck.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Mother, Business

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.2, Nayika Publishing

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• Time spent in a casino is time given to death, a foretaste of the hour when one's flesh will be diverted to the purposes of the worm and not of the will.

  Rebecca West

  Purpose, Flesh, Casinos

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.41, Open Road Media

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• Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Children, Parent, Gaming

  Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.188

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• Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.

  Emily Dickinson

  Good Luck, Toil, Chance

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1630, Delphi Classics

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