I want people to understand, gambling is not a bad thing if you do it within the framework of what it's meant… — Michael Jordan Copy Share Image
I played a lot of tough clubs in my time. Once a guy in one of those clubs wanted to bet me… — Henny Youngman Copy Share Image
Like other forms of gambling, wagering on the Internet isn't illegal because it's bad. It's bad because we've chosen to make it… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
It's a shame when other people's gambling habits change the meaning of paintings or when fluctuations of value start to dictate how… — Nate Lowman Copy Share Image
Gambling is part of the human condition. I love it. I have the best time gambling. I've been winning fortunes, and I've… — Jerry Lewis Copy Share Image
I can easily see how young people can get sucked into gambling and I am happy to stand up as a warning… — Eidur Gudjohnsen Copy Share Image
It's one thing to ask your bank manager for an overdraft to buy 500 begonias for the borders in Haslemere, but quite… — Jeffrey Bernard Copy Share Image
Mr.Blank's reputation as a card shark had preceded him. No one accused him of being dishonest, but on the other hand no… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
“By carefully scrutinizing and explaining away their losses, while accepting their successes at face value, gamblers do indeed rewrite their personal histories… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
We certainly noted that when given the opportunity, women handle money more efficiently. They have long term vision, they manage money more… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Hence, in all countries the chief occupation of society is card-playing, and it is the gauge of its value, and an outward… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Why has pachinko swept Japan? It can hardly be the excitement of gambling, since the risks and rewards are so small. During… — Alex Kerr Copy Share Image
“The secret is this: people gamble to lose money. They come to the casinos for the moment in which they feel alive,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Exactly, Hastings. And that is where the gambler (and the murderer, who is, after all, only a supreme kind of gambler since… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Betting on the success of innovative technologies in the marketplace can carry all the uncertainty and risk that betting on the next… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
I don’t like gambling very much. I don’t like being at the mercy of those little white squares that roll around and… — Lawrence Tierney Copy Share Image
I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift… — T. Boone Pickens Copy Share Image
When you enter a casino, remember that you are entering a place of business run by very shrewd business people who understand… — Henry Tamburin Copy Share Image
I know their game. First, the traders and the missionaries: then the ambassadors: then the cannon. It's better to go straight to… — Tewodros II Copy Share Image
If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
But Geology carries the day: it is like the pleasure of gambling, speculating, on first arriving, what the rocks may be; I… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The gamester, if he die a martyr to his profession, is doubly ruined. He adds his soul to every other loss, and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Gambling in medieval France was a simple business. All you needed were some friends, a pot, and a chicken. In fact, you… — Mark Forsyth Copy Share Image
Time spent in a casino is time given to death, a foretaste of the hour when one's flesh will be diverted to… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Im probably one of the worst people with numbers youve ever met. My brothers always kid that they think Im counting cards… — Luke Wilson Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people like to gamble, and they don't want to go to the casino to gamble. Sometimes they… — Larry Holmes Copy Share Image
People will spend a tremendous amount of money in casinos, money they normally would spend on refrigerators or a new car. Local… — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
“For why is gambling a whit worse than any other method of acquiring money? How, for instance, is it worse than trade?… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
It never hurts for potential opponents to think you're more than a little stupid and can hardly count all the money in… — Amarillo Slim Copy Share Image
I can say, 'right, I will stop this kid in round five.' If I am good enough to do that then fair… — Carl Froch Copy Share Image
If I had been busted for drugs instead of gambling, I'd still be managing the Reds and baseball would be paying for… — Pete Rose Copy Share Image
The people at Barstool Sports are a bunch of average Joes, who like most guys love sports, gambling, golfing and chasing short… — Dave Portnoy Copy Share Image
“Veblen called it the price-system. Mills called it the Power Elite. It's probably no more than ninety-nine people who don't know what… — John Cage Copy Share Image
Everyone except gamblers knows that gambling never pays. ... Losing, like winning, only increased his determination to play. — Firoozeh Dumas Copy Share Image
Pachinko, like all gambling, is rigged. The house always wins. It's a central metaphor of life. It's rigged, but you keep playing. — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
It was a place of sin, loose women, whiskey and gambling. It was no place for a good Presbyterian, and I did… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I'll tell thee what it says; it calls me villain, a treacherous husband, a cruel father, a false brother; one lost to… — George Edward Moore Copy Share Image
“I knew the persona I was inhabiting—moneyed Japanese gaming enthusiast—would lack crucial verisimilitude if the persona in question had never set eyes… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
Sure, my uncle killed himself playing Russian Roulette. But I choose to remember him as a great Russian Roulette player. — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
