Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Life is a game that everyone is capable to win. Life is a gambling that everyone might lose. But at the end… — Monalyn Tuazon Copy Share Image
A politician taking campaign money from gamblers in Nevada is like one taking campaign money from the auto people in Michigan. Gambling… — Paul Laxalt Copy Share Image
The pain of losing is diverting. So is the thrill of winning. Winning, however, is lonelier, as those you've won money from… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
“I've done my part, played my hand, even thrown in my cards when I had to. I've bet what I didn't have… — Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl Copy Share Image
I think the XFL has a good chance. With the way sports gambling is coming to be and the people they have… — Pat McAfee Copy Share Image
“Hey, you know that thing Dostoyevesky wrote on gambling? It's like that. When you're surrounded by endless possibilities, one of the hardest… — Haruki Murakami 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
“Everywhere was the atmosphere of a long debauch that had to end; the orchestras played too fast, the stakes were too high… — Malcolm Cowley Copy Share Image
“the late 1990s, one of the largest slot machine manufacturers hired a former video game executive to help them design new slots.… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
“Kate wondered what an alien would make of the scene. Dozens of people sitting in isolation in front of computers, not speaking… — Fiona Barton Copy Share Image
Establishing a 0.03 percent Wall Street speculation fee, similar to what we had from 1914-1966, would dampen the dangerous level of speculation… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
If you run for election with a particular agenda about saving jobs, about strengthening manufacturing and farming jobs, about tackling predatory gambling… — Nick Xenophon Copy Share Image
The Macau casinos have a wonderful business, it's taking in money from Chinese businessmen elsewhere who send it through junky companies to… — James Chanos Copy Share Image
“Mr. Brooker, though out of work for two years, was a miner by trade, but he and his wife had been keeping… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I had, of course, witnessed hundreds of people in a casino before, mindlessly dropping coins into slot machines. They don't play for… — J. Maarten Troost Copy Share Image
In betting on races, there are two elements that are never lacking - hope as hope, and an incomplete recollection of the… — E. V. Lucas Copy Share Image
The place was built on the premise that people want to gamble, and they may as well do it here. They look… — Wilford Brimley Copy Share Image
Life is like a gamble, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. But whatever cards in life, whether club, spade or diamond, always… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Losers walking around with money in their pockets are always dangerous, not to be trusted. Some horse always reaches out and grabs… — Bill Barich Copy Share Image
The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organsie gambling are some indication of the profits to be… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
“After my modest victory I played patience (the card game, not the virtue, never that) in the lounge, something I had not… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“In whatever decisions you make in life, you have to run them through a series of logic tests to make sure that… — John-Talmage Mathis Copy Share Image
My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
My last piece of advice to the degenerate slot player who thinks he can beat the one-armed bandit consists of four little… — John Scarne 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
I want people to understand, gambling is not a bad thing if you do it within the framework of what it's meant… — Michael Jordan Copy Share Image
I played a lot of tough clubs in my time. Once a guy in one of those clubs wanted to bet me… — Henny Youngman Copy Share Image
Like other forms of gambling, wagering on the Internet isn't illegal because it's bad. It's bad because we've chosen to make it… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
It's a shame when other people's gambling habits change the meaning of paintings or when fluctuations of value start to dictate how… — Nate Lowman Copy Share Image
Gambling is part of the human condition. I love it. I have the best time gambling. I've been winning fortunes, and I've… — Jerry Lewis Copy Share Image
It is possible that a wise and good man may be prevailed on to game; but it is impossi∣ble that a professed… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25… — Agnes Smedley Copy Share Image
Go around asking a lot of dam fool questions and taking chances. Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off. — Alex Trebek Copy Share Image
Dinah Washington backstage was gambling, always in a hot poker game, cussing like a sailor - but at the same time she… — Leslie Uggams Copy Share Image
Greyhound racing is a self-regulating gambling business that depends on the uncontrolled breeding and unaccountable disappearance of thousands of dogs every year.… — Annette Crosbie Copy Share Image
Just as outlawing alcohol did not work in the 1920s, current attempts to prohibit online gambling will not work, either. — John Conyers Copy Share Image
I know their game. First, the traders and the missionaries: then the ambassadors: then the cannon. It's better to go straight to… — Tewodros II Copy Share Image
If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
