Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today's winners are tomorrow's blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
All gamblers lose regularly, but they rarely discuss it in public. Losing is bad for the image, dude. Nobody buys Hot Tips… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Las Vegas is a society of armed masturbators/gambling is the kicker here/sex is extra/weird trip for high rollers ... house-whores for winners,… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it's because… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Remember this, folks - I am a Hillbilly, and I don't always Bet the same way I talk. Good advice is one… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother's milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
But I am in the gambling business, for good or ill; it is the business I have chosen, and the only governing… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“There was also the fact that sending a penniless writer to get $135 worth of beer was — as Khrushchev said of Nixon —… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share
“Cases of champagne and scotch lay broken in the street, and everyone I saw had a bottle. They were screaming and dancing, and in… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share
By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share
No one holds command over me. No man. No god. No Prince. What is a claim of age for ones who are immortal? What… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share
“The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb grey hairs” — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share
Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share
If we get chased out of Iraq with our tail between our legs, that will be the fifth consecutive Third-world country with no hint… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share
At age 22 I set what I insist is an all-time record for distance hitchhiking in Bermuda shorts: 3,700 miles in three weeks. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share
Paranoia is just another mask for ignorance. The truth, when you finally chase it down is almost always far worse than your darkest visions… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share
“No doubt they all Got What Was Coming To Them. All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy Peace and Understanding… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share
“For several months they'd been drifting toward political involvement, but the picture was hazy and one of the most confusing elements was their geographical… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share
He wandered into the Newsroom and asked for a job the same way he’d walk into a barbershop and ask for a haircut, and… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share
There's no point in getting into politics at all unless you plan to lash things around. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share
There’s a lot of things wrong with this country, but one of the few things still right with it is that a man can… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share
