Gambling Quotes - Page 9

• Gaming has been resorted to by the affluent as a refuge from ennui. It is a mental dram, and may succeed for a moment; but, like all other stimuli, it produces indirect debility.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  May, Succeed, Moments

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.147

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• Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

  Robert Frost

  Art, Horse, Business

  Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Men, Essentials

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2300, Delphi Classics

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• There is no moral difference between gambling at cards or in lotteries or on the race track and gambling in the stock market. One method is just pernicious to the body politic as the other kind.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Race, Differences, Track

  United States. President (1901-1909 : Roosevelt), Theodore Roosevelt (1908). “The Roosevelt Policy: Speeches, Letters and State Papers, Relating to Corporate Wealth and Closely Allied Topics, of Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States”

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• If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.

  Eli Siegel

  Mistake, Stones, Ifs

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• Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Wisdom, War, Anger

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• The only gambling tip which amounts to anything is to keep out of the game.

  E. W. Howe

  Games, Amount

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• Every prosperous person who does not work has a creative scheme that does.

  John Otway

  Funny, Creative, Doe

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• If you mind losing more than you enjoy winning, don't bet.

  Clement Freud

  Winning, Mind, Losing

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• The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Anxiety, Risk, Coward

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.106, BookBaby

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• Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

  Oscar Wilde

  Money, Clever, Stupid

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.51, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Money, Philosophical, Winning

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Wisdom of Life”, p.19, Cosimo Classics

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• If in the paddock the owner is surrounded by a herd of young children, don't back his horse. But if the owner is accompanied by a beautiful lady, plunge to the hilt.

  Robert Morley

  Beautiful, Horse, Children

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• The only exercise I get is walking to the betting office.

  Peter O'Sullevan

  Exercise, Office, Walking

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• All losers exaggerate because they want you to know how bad they feel.

  Mike Caro

  Want, Loser, Feels

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• Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Two, Pieces, Way

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• I find the only thing that really stands up, better than gambling, better than booze, better than women, is reading.

  Mario Puzo

  Reading, Beer, Booze

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• This was my first lesson about gambling: if you see somebody winning all the time, he isn't gambling, he's cheating. Later on in life, if I were continuously losing in any gambling situation, I would watch very closely.

  Malcolm X

  Cheating, Winning, Watches

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.25, Ballantine Books

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• I have a bad gambling problem. You're not in show business for 12 years and dress like this without a bad gambling problem.

  Artie Lange

  Years, Dresses, Problem

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• I recommend sports, I don't recommend gambling.

  Rachel Maddow

  Sports

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• [Gambling] is a perfidious passion. ... It is bad for one to win, and bad not to win. ... it ends by setting your blood on fire, and to increase your chances of winning at any cost, your stakes increase frightfully; the desire of winning gets to be a madness. The soul gets sick; it neither sees nor hears anything. No family ties, position, nor fortune, can stand against this passion.

  Matilde Serao

  Passion, Winning, Blood

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• If you ever go to Las Vegas, and you will, just go for a few days. I was there recently for seven days, seven days in Vegas. After I blew all my money on gambling and prostitution, I had six days to kill.

  Doug Benson

  Las Vegas, Six, Seven Days

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• Yes, I can understand that a man might go to a gambling table when he sees that all that lies between him and death is his last crown.

  Honore de Balzac

  Lying, Men, Yes I Can

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• There's no such thing as a sure thing. That's why they call it gambling.

  Neil Simon

  Risk, Sure Thing

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• I knew a guy who had $5 million and owned his house free and clear. But he wanted to make a bit more money to support his spending, so at the peak of the internet bubble he was selling puts on internet stocks. He lost all of his money and his house and now works in a restaurant. It's not a smart thing for the country to legalize gambling [in the stock market] and make it very accessible.

  Charlie Munger

  Country, Smart, House

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