There is a lure in power. It can get into a man's blood just as gambling and lust for money have been… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Gaming is the destruction of all decorum; the prince forgets at it his dignity, and the lady her modesty. — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
My advice to the unborn is, don't be born with a gambling instinct unless you have a good sense of probabilities. — Jack Dreyfus Copy Share Image
Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality. — Charles Caleb Colton 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
I still gamble, but it's all legal. I own horses, and I go to watch my horse. I don't go daily. — Pete Rose Copy Share Image
But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It… — Fisher Stevens Copy Share Image
Not everyone supported gaming, but we had a general meeting and a vote on whether to pursue a casino or not and… — Donna M. Loring 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
For every three machines, you lose two jobs out of the surrounding economy because people are dumping their money on gambling — John Warren Kindt 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
As I stood there absorbing Hammett's novel, the slot machines at the back of the shop were clanking and whirring, and in… — Ross MacDonald Copy Share Image
“... there is no magical formula to beat the casino. None. Save your money. Save yourself from the cons of an author… — John-Talmage Mathis Copy Share Image
Back horses or go down to Throgmorton Street and try to take it away from the Rothschilds, and I will applaud you… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
In our most Puritan of society, gambling-like other pleasures-is either taxed, restricted to certain hours, or forbidden altogether. Yet the impulse to… — Richard Arnold Epstein Copy Share Image
Love is reckless; not reason. Reason seeks a profit. Loves comes on strong, consuming herself unabashed. Yet in the midst of suffering… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Don’t ever average losers. Decrease your trading volume when you are trading poorly; increase your volume when you are trading well. Never… — Paul Tudor Jones Copy Share Image
“The owner of the Agut d'Avignon had the air of a 1920s dandy who had ruined himself with one mad night of… — Manuel Vázquez Montalbán Copy Share Image
“Crossing the line, that's what the Highway Patrol woman said. Neely was on a gurney, his injuries deemed non-life-threatening, she was taking… — Kendric Neal Copy Share Image
...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“The casino played a song of its own—slot machines dinging, chips clacking as the dealer passed them out to the players at… — Michelle Madow Copy Share Image
I am willing to spend whatever it takes … My moral standard compels me to speak out on this issue because I… — Sheldon Adelson Copy Share Image
