Gambling Quotes · Page 14

All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment.

— Richard Whately

We beat the Great Depression without lotteries and legalized gambling

— John Warren Kindt

Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.

— Dennis Quaid

Any legislator who says he doesn't see the downside hasn't done his homework

— John Warren Kindt

I came to the conclusion long ago that all life is six to five against.

— Damon Runyon

$60,000 spent in a consumer economy multiplies by respending into $180,000

— John Warren Kindt

I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people - being always excited.

— Lord Byron

I've been gambling since the age of 12. Horses, dogs, dice, roulette, you name it.

— Jimmy White

Casinos are spreading like wildfire, and it seems to be an entertainment option that a significant number of people engage in. That's…

— Ron Porter

Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is…

— Samuel Johnson

In Las Vegas, people know that the odds are stacked against them. On Wall Street, they manipulate the odds while you are…

— John Ensign

Crime goes up 10 percent due to the gambling by the third year after racinos or slot machines are open, and then…

— John Warren Kindt

I'm probably one of the worst people with numbers you've ever met. My brothers always kid that they think I'm counting cards…

— Luke Wilson

While we know gambling is part of the industry in Las Vegas, we're not going to make it all that easy for…

— Gary Bettman

Then they're like addicts; they can't help themselves... They will steal, cheat, embezzle and commit other crimes just to get money to…

— John Warren Kindt

There's nothing wrong with betting if it's controlled - it's when it becomes out of control and people bet beyond their means.

— Joey Barton

I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our…

— Anonymous

Hathaway!" Stan barked, coming from the direction of the field. "Nice of you to join us. Get in there now! You're lucky…

— Richelle Mead

Football was always a deal we made with ourselves. We adopted it for its brutality, which was embedded in a context that…

— Charlie Pierce

I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The…

— Charles Baudelaire

“You don't know you're wrong." "And I don't know I'm right either. That's what the matter is. Neither of us knows .…

— Elizabeth Marie Pope

In the future you're going to be able to go into a 7-Eleven and buy a ticket on a game, and people…

— Tim Donaghy

Above all, he liked it that everything was one's own fault. There was only oneself to praise or blame. Luck was a…

— Ian Fleming

“I hope you know that television and computers are no more your friends, and no more increasers of your brainpower, than slot…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Self professed, profound till the chips were down. Know you're a gambling man, love is a losing hand.

— Amy Winehouse

It is hard to decide whether gambling is a means of getting something for nothing or nothing for something.

— Vikrant Parsai

“Tell me, Theodore, were you playing against orphans, by any chance?”

— Sheri Cobb South

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

— Dean Martin

When it comes to the many addictions and vices and quitting saying I can't generally means I choose not to

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

Try to decide how good your hand is at a given moment. Nothing else matters. Nothing.

— Doyle Brunson

I think there's a mental block for betting big amounts that doesn't exist for me but it does for other people.

— James Holzhauer

Some people are just more prepared to take risks than others. I grew up a gambler. That's my name: Maverick.

— Maverick Carter

The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.

— Heywood Hale Broun

Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.

— Anonymous

I never really gambled - certainly not playing poker. I'd casually bet on a football game or joined a pool.

— Jason Gedrick

I am now eased in my finances and replenished in my wardrobe.

— Andrew Jackson

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

— Mario Puzo

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

— Frank Scoblete

Gambling operates under the premise that greed can be satisfied by luck.

— Rita Mae Brown

If someone hurt you once, then they can hurt you twice, consider it gambling and roll your dice.

— Anonymous