Cinema is gambling. It is better to gamble on a unique film even if it seems like suicide. — Thomas Langmann Copy Share Image
“You’ve looked in the mirror long enough. See everything as if it were narrated by another.” — John-Talmage Mathis Copy Share Image
When the results weren't coming on the snooker table, I tried to supplement things by gambling on horses even more. — John Virgo Copy Share Image
Casino games such as roulette, blackjack, baccarat, slot machines and so on, are stacked in favour of the house. — Victoria Coren Mitchell Copy Share Image
You get your cards, place your bets, and play the best game you can. The House always wins. — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
In gambling, you usually start to go wrong when you deviate from your pregame strategy. — James Holzhauer Copy Share Image
I admit to spending a fortune on women, booze and gambling... the rest I spend foolishly. — Chic Murray 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
A young woman with long hair and a short white halter dress walks through the casino at the Riviera in Las Vegas… — Joan Didion 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
Clothing sales plummet, rent delinquencies mount and even grocery sales shrink as gamblers, having tapped out their entertainment budgets, dip into dollars… — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
With spots quadrangular of diamond form, ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, and spades, the emblems of untimely graves. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“Some people will each start investing more of their salary on ‘their’ house and spending less of it on ‘their’ car or… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The smartest thing legislatures can do is get rid of lotteries and get those dollars buying consumer goods and get the sales… — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
“It felt wrong for me to push Lady Luck to the side and for me to choose who ought to be 'lucky'.… — John-Talmage Mathis 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
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
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
“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
Yes, prudently invested contributions to the Social Security fund may bring greater dividends, but those contributions would also face a greater risk.… — Daniel Inouye Copy Share Image
As a poodle may have his hair cut long or his hair cut short, as he may be trimmed with pink ribbons… — Daniel De Leon Copy Share Image
All gambling is the telling of a fortune, but of a monstrously depleted fortune, empty of everything save one numerical circumstance, shorn… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
There is something in people; you might even call it a little bit of a gambling instinct… I tell people investing should… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
In most betting shops you will see three windows marked 'Bet Here', but only one window with the legend 'Pay Out'. — Jeffrey Bernard Copy Share Image
Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I'd be willing to bet you, if I was a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball. — Pete Rose Copy Share Image
In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“A true champion of love and sport wears it proudly in all aspects of life.” — Jennifer Ott Copy Share Image
You're gambling with something vital. Most writers get smashed egos. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The real loss by gambling is $180,000 to the consumer economy for each slot machine — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
The rulers of the country generally believed that betting eliminates strikes. Men had to work in order to gamble. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
The military should get rid of video gambling devices on nearly 100 overseas bases and posts — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition? — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term. — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
