“Who’s to say that gamblers don’t really understand it better than anyone else? Isn’t everything worthwhile a gamble? Can’t good come around… — Tartt Donna Copy Share Image
Most players unfortunately go to the casinos with an attitude that makes it even easier for casinos to psyche them into losing.… — Henry Tamburin Copy Share Image
The essence of the phenomenon of gambling is decision making. The act of making a decision consists of selecting one course of… — Richard Arnold Epstein Copy Share Image
Terre Haute. They used to call it 'Terrible Hut' because it was so wide open. Gambling, red light district, speak-easies. I entertained… — Scatman Crothers Copy Share Image
I lay 11-10 because I know the bookie needs that 5 percent that I give him. Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to… — Walter Matthau Copy Share Image
“Gambling wasn't even about the money, was it? Not the action, not the bells, not the adrenaline, those were just add-ons. It… — Kendric Neal Copy Share Image
Scobe's Fifth Law: All dealers wish they were doing something other than dealing. All dealers have plans to get out of dealing.… — Frank Scoblete Copy Share Image
I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The Penobscot took an initial poll of people in the state to determine if there was support for opening a casino, and… — Donna M. Loring Copy Share Image
The consequences of inflation are malinvestment, waste, a wanton redistribution of wealth and income, the growth of speculation and gambling, immorality and… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
But I also think that it does create a lot of revenue, but to me it's a temporary revenue stream because it's… — Craig Benson Copy Share Image
If thy desire to raise thy fortunes encourage thy delights to the casts of fortune, be wise betimes, lest thou repent too… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
“One way, he thought, the whole thing of ring fighting was hurting somebody else, deliberately, and particularly when it was not necessary.… — James Jones Copy Share Image
At that point I ought to have gone away, but a strange sensation rose up in me, a sort of defiance of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is in Hollywood, as in all cultures in which gambling is the central activity, a lowered sexual energy, an inability to… — Joan Didion 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 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
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
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
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
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
My last piece of advice to the degenerate slot player who thinks he can beat the one-armed bandit consists of four little… — John Scarne Copy Share Image
Utah sells itself to Fortune 500 companies as a noncasino state where employers don't have to be concerned about absenteeism and other… — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
The place was built on the premise that people want to gamble, and they may as well do it here. They look… — Wilford Brimley Copy Share Image
In betting on races, there are two elements that are never lacking - hope as hope, and an incomplete recollection of the… — E. V. Lucas Copy Share Image
All kinds of gambling, from bingo to baccarat, are benign entertainment for most people, dangerously addictive to a few, and capable of… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
Life is like a gamble, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. But whatever cards in life, whether club, spade or diamond, always… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Losers walking around with money in their pockets are always dangerous, not to be trusted. Some horse always reaches out and grabs… — Bill Barich Copy Share Image
“In whatever decisions you make in life, you have to run them through a series of logic tests to make sure that… — John-Talmage Mathis Copy Share Image
“After my modest victory I played patience (the card game, not the virtue, never that) in the lounge, something I had not… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
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