Gambling Quotes · Page 16

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

— Benjamin Disraeli

You bet Lotto more than once,So why do you hit on one chick?

— Musa Nkutha

You're gonna lose some ball games and you're gonna win some ball games and that's about it.

— Sparky Anderson

Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness.

— Democritus

Guessing has never been widely acclaimed as a good gambling strategy.

— Jan Garavaglia

They are the new breed of slot machine-colorful, fancy, exciting, wonderful...and deadly.

— Frank Scoblete

Two-up is Australia's very own way of parting a fool and his money.

— Germaine Greer

There's no such thing as a sure thing. That's why they call it gambling.

— Neil Simon

I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling -…

— Omar Sharif

Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could…

— Mark Twain

If you're betting all the time, everything is just another bet. You don't even think about the money after you've made the…

— Bobby Riggs

Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Although crime and corruption decreases within a one-mile radius of a casino, it increases 10 percent within a 35-mile radius by the…

— John Warren Kindt

Hold'em - like life itself - has its defining moment. It's the flop. When you see the flop, you're looking at 71…

— Lou Krieger

“He does not depend on insider tips, crooked referees, or other sorts of hustles to make his bets. Nor does he have…

— Nate Silver

Why do people play the lottery, or why do people gamble, period? You know, it's with the hope of winning something more.

— Derek Kilmer

Our old - fashioned system is better than any new - fangled voting machine. Not only is it guaranteed to work, but…

— Jean Chretien

“Everybody knows that England is the world of betting men, who are of a higher class than mere gamblers; to bet is…

— Jules Verne

I am not surprised that there are gambling houses, like so many snares laid for human avarice; like abysses where many a…

— Jean de la Bruyere

“Move aside Ebola, smallpox, and AIDS; make room for narcolepsy. I would become shunned and avoided. Perhaps the people at the casino…

— John-Talmage Mathis

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

“I refuse to live with the regret of gambling for tomorrow. I will not lay on my deathbed wondering what might have…

— Steve Maraboli

You know when you see an advertisement for a casino, and they have a picture of a guy winning money? That's false…

— Mitch Hedberg

“I live by the belief that if you work hard and do the best you can, at the end of the day…

— John-Talmage Mathis

The next best thing to gambling and winning is gambling and losing.

— Nick Dandolos

Gambling is the very embodiment of greed. Greed is its raison d'etre.

— Norah Vincent

The next best thing to a winning day at the track is a losing day.

— Virginia Clinton Kelley

Every video [slot] gambling machine takes $60,000 out of the consumer economy

— John Warren Kindt

A large percentage of the staff plays both online and here at the Casinos.

— Tim Page

I am not alone in football in having a problem with gambling.

— Joey Barton

For every slot machine you add, you lose one job per year from the consumer economy

— John Warren Kindt

“When we reach our highest potential, we will find our highest love.”

— Jennifer Ott

Well, I can fake my way around some things, but I don't think I would be good at betting.

— Diane Lane

Studies in Australia have verified this drain on the economy by video gambling machines

— John Warren Kindt

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

— Mario Puzo

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

— Rita Mae Brown

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

— Frank Scoblete

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

— Anonymous

School is like going to Vegas. Gambling thousands of dollars when there's no guarantee you'll be successful.

— Anonymous

If I gamble, I go for the lowest-end blackjack or slots. It's because I don't like to lose!

— Bill Rancic