Coin matching and finger flashing were among the first formal games to arise in the history of gambling. The class of Morra… — Richard Arnold Epstein Copy Share Image
I got into gambling when I was playing a casino. I was a hermit in those days. I would go onstage, go… — Gladys Knight Copy Share Image
Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Sitting there, it is impossible to change your luck. But, you can always change the machine you are at!” — James Hauenstein Copy Share Image
Many players will not improve because they cannot bear self-knowledge. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Online gambling is very seductive and very illusory. It can seem like a really good idea. It can seem like what people… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
Uncertainty doesn't make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting. — Walter Kirn 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
Your social costs, your costs to the taxpayers, are $3 for every $1 of benefits, it's not good economic development — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
I'll tell you how to beat the gambling in Las Vegas. When you get off the airplane, walk right into the propeller. — Henny Youngman Copy Share Image
In short, they were gambling on their luck, and luck is not to be coerced. — Albert Camus 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
The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“After all, as Franco would dictate, everyone was going to lose their money at some point. You may as well do so… — Christopher Byford Copy Share Image
I must have gone through $10 million during my career. Part of the loot went for gambling, part for horses and part… — George Raft Copy Share Image
Of all mechanics, of all servile handycrafts-men, a gamester is the vilest. But yet, as many of the quality are of the… — John Gay 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
State-sponsored gambling produces no product, no new wealth, and so it makes no genuine contribution to economic development — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
Often addiction after addiction is the price one pays. If they can't give their own life praise... — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
“Ah, how much freer and fun the 70s must have been if the vibe in this casino is reflecting the mood of… — Ryan Gelpke Copy Share Image
Obesity is the result of a loss of self-control. Indeed, loss of self-control might be said to be the defining social (or… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
A weekend in Vegas without gambling and drinking is just like being a born-again Christian. — Artie Lange Copy Share Image
