Gambling Quotes · Page 19

God does not play dice [with the universe]. [Ger., Gott wurfelt nicht.]

— Albert Einstein

If I had the money and the drinking capacity, I'd probably live at a roulette table and let my life go to…

— Michael Ventura

I came to the conclusion long ago that all life is six to five against.

— Damon Runyon

$60,000 spent in a consumer economy multiplies by respending into $180,000

— John Warren Kindt

I'm a betting man. I like to gamble everywhere, everything I do.

— Luke Rockhold

The outside wold pressures you into a mold, but if you don't accept that - you gamble with life. Call it gambling.

— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

An Osage tribal study found that between $41 million to $50 million left a 50-mile radius around their own casino

— John Warren Kindt

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We have a swarm of people in the stock market - not out of knowledge, not out of expectation, but out of…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

What I like about 'Lay the Favourite' is that it shows gambling as a profession, as this real grind-it-out job, with no…

— Joshua Jackson

The casinos believe in math (and I don't mean numerology).They believe in the power of percentages and short pays, not in the…

— Frank Scoblete

Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.

— Samantha Bee

“On the other hand, investing is a unique kind of casino—one where you cannot lose in the end, so long as you…

— Benjamin Graham

“the over-under, is just another example of how the bookmakers are always looking for more options to give the guesser an opportunity”

— Amarillo Slim Preston

There are times when you'll only have one or two seconds to decide if you're going to bet on something and you…

— James Holzhauer

I am not opposed to video gambling as long as it is properly regulated and regulators are diligent about keeping bad actors…

— Lori Lightfoot

Most of the energy in North America is just consuming - Wal-Mart, shopping centres, government offices - or personal consumption: houses, cars,…

— Vaclav Smil

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

Be assured that, although men of eminent genius have been guilty of all other vices, none worthy of more than a secondary…

— Walter Savage Landor

In those days I had various strong inclinations, for wine, gambling and cockfighting, and the society of gypsies, together with a passion…

— Isak Dinesen

At that point I ought to have gone away, but a strange sensation rose up in me, a sort of defiance of…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault…

— Thomas Jefferson

There is in Hollywood, as in all cultures in which gambling is the central activity, a lowered sexual energy, an inability to…

— Joan Didion

The Church has been and now is unalterably opposed to gambling in any form whatever. It is opposed to any game of…

— Heber J. Grant

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

— Ambrose Bierce

“That was the reason the casino bothered to list the wheel’s most recent spins: to help gamblers to delude themselves.”

— Michael Lewis

We beat the Great Depression without lotteries and legalized gambling

— John Warren Kindt

All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment.

— Richard Whately

Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.

— Dennis Quaid

Any legislator who says he doesn't see the downside hasn't done his homework

— John Warren Kindt

Try to decide how good your hand is at a given moment. Nothing else matters. Nothing.

— Doyle Brunson

Some people are just more prepared to take risks than others. I grew up a gambler. That's my name: Maverick.

— Maverick Carter

I think there's a mental block for betting big amounts that doesn't exist for me but it does for other people.

— James Holzhauer

I've been gambling since the age of 12. Horses, dogs, dice, roulette, you name it.

— Jimmy White

Self professed, profound till the chips were down. Know you're a gambling man, love is a losing hand.

— Amy Winehouse

I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people - being always excited.

— Lord Byron

“Tell me, Theodore, were you playing against orphans, by any chance?”

— Sheri Cobb South

It is hard to decide whether gambling is a means of getting something for nothing or nothing for something.

— Vikrant Parsai

When it comes to the many addictions and vices and quitting saying I can't generally means I choose not to

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

When your opponent's sittin' there holdin' all the aces, there's only one thing to do: kick over the table.

— Dean Martin