A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother's milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Every prosperous person who does not work has a creative scheme that does. — John Otway Copy Share Image
Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or… — Marcus Tullius Cicero 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
“Strive to be beyond what others perceive you to be, by striving beyond the limits of yourself.” — Debbie Tosun Kilday Copy Share Image
School is like going to Vegas. Gambling thousands of dollars when there's no guarantee you'll be successful. — Anonymous 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
Someone asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Arsenal do not have money to spend, so they are gambling on young players. Arsenal are obliged to sell their best players… — Samir Nasri 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
“It was clearly the Native American curse on the white man in action. After taking their land and converting everything that was… — Carl-John X Veraja Copy Share Image
“Since the beginning of time there have been people who see themselves as being above the law. To them the laws don’t… — John-Talmage Mathis Copy Share Image
We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet- for the sake of hamburgers — Peter Singer 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 to fight something, you really have to try to understand its motivations—particularly when the something you’re fighting holds most of the… — Greg Bear Copy Share Image
I am best described as just a guy with a very large bump of curiosity and a gambling instinct. — Clarence Birdseye Copy Share Image
Once you adopt a value-investment strategy, any other investment behavior starts to seem like gambling. — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
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 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
The familiarities of the gaming-table contribute very much to the decay of politeness ... The pouts and quarrels that naturally arise from… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image