Every prosperous person who does not work has a creative scheme that does. — John Otway Copy Share Image
I'm not really a gambler, but I'll bet on the Super Bowl or some boxing. Something I feel comfortable with. — Birdman Copy Share Image
The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother, and I call him Gamblor! — Homer Copy Share Image
I'm not a gambler, let's just say that, nor have I ever been a dealer at a casino. — Anna Gunn Copy Share Image
Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Back horses or go down to Throgmorton Street and try to take it away from the Rothschilds, and I will applaud you… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes… — Mario Puzo Copy Share Image
“Maybe that’s the difference between criminals and good people—what they have to lose and how desperately they’re willing to gamble with it” — Rachel Higginson Copy Share Image
Not everyone supported gaming, but we had a general meeting and a vote on whether to pursue a casino or not and… — Donna M. Loring Copy Share Image
Sociologists almost uniformly report that increased gambling activities, which are promoted as sociologically 'acceptable' and which are made 'accessible' to larger numbers… — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
Shockingly, a University of Pennsylvania study says the number of young people addicted to gambling - largely due to increased exposure to… — Spencer Bachus Copy Share Image
For every three machines, you lose two jobs out of the surrounding economy because people are dumping their money on gambling — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
“... there is no magical formula to beat the casino. None. Save your money. Save yourself from the cons of an author… — John-Talmage Mathis Copy Share Image
“Another mistaken notion connected with the law of large numbers is the idea that an event is more or less likely to… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
Las Vegas was like that. There was a visceral attraction here. The bold promise of money and sex. But the first was… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
...People need to ask, "How do I play the hand that has been dealt me?" The world is not going to give… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Gaming is a vice the more dangerous as it is deceitful; and, contrary to every other species of luxury, flatters its votaries… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
This was the first time he had seriously confronted what he was doing, and the force of that awareness came very abruptly… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Gambling has been fed by knowledge that, if disaster struck, someone else—borrowers, investors, taxpayers—would end up bearing at least some of the… — Danielle DiMartino Booth Copy Share Image
I am willing to spend whatever it takes … My moral standard compels me to speak out on this issue because I… — Sheldon Adelson Copy Share Image
“Paul Buchheit: I'm suddenly reminded that, for a while, I asked people if they were playing Russian Roulette with a gun with… — Jessica Livingston Copy Share Image
Part of the loot went for gambling, part for horses, and part for women. The rest I spent foolishly. — George Raft Copy Share Image
I still gamble, but it's all legal. I own horses, and I go to watch my horse. I don't go daily. — Pete Rose Copy Share Image
My advice to the unborn is, don't be born with a gambling instinct unless you have a good sense of probabilities. — Jack Dreyfus Copy Share Image
Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
They always lost but he didn't blame me because to a gambler, a bad tip is better than no tip at all. — Phil Silvers Copy Share Image
This would have been a great game to watch if we didn't have any money on it. — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
There is a lure in power. It can get into a man's blood just as gambling and lust for money have been… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Gaming is the destruction of all decorum; the prince forgets at it his dignity, and the lady her modesty. — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
The only business in the world bigger than gambling is religion...but gambling is not nearly so corrupt. — J.R. Miller Copy Share Image
Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one. — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
It's completely idiot proof." I told them they've got it all wrong. I want a machine that is "idiot friendly. — William Weld Copy Share Image
Losing as much money as I can get hold of is an instant solution to my economic problems. — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
It is a bad business, dealing in lottery tickets ... Riches got in such a hasty manner never wear well. — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
