Gamblers Quotes

33 quotes by 33 authors

When I played the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas on New Year's Eve, I got to bring Wiley, my 85-pound black lab. He's responsible for… — Elayne Boosler
If it wasn't for hustlers, gangsters & gamblers there'd be no Jazz. Wasn't middle~class who said Let's go hear Bird tonight. — Betty Carter
The impulse to acquisition, pursuit of gain, of money, of the greatest possible amount of money, has in itself nothing to do with capitalism. This… — Max Weber
Many gamblers think they're being singled out by fate as a target for cruel jokes. They feel they alone in all the universe are being… — Mike Caro
I made mistakes. I canâ€™t whine about it. Iâ€™m the one that messed up and Iâ€™m paying the consequences. However, if I am given a… — Pete Rose
The system of banking have[for]ever reprobated. I contemplate it as a blot left in all our Constitutions, which, if not covered, will end in their… — Thomas Jefferson
Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair. — Gautama Buddha
It is no defense of superstition and pseudoscience to say that it brings solace and comfort to people. . . . If solace and comfort… — Isaac Asimov
I like playing roulette, I like dice. I grew up with gamblers. — Chazz Palminteri
I miss the personalization that Vegas was - there were showroom captains and all the dealers knew the gamblers by their first names. — Wayne Newton
On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in… — Vince Cable
Producers are not gamblers. They want a good return on their investment. — Max von Sydow
The real things to know is that folks will stand to lose more than they will to win. ThatÂ’s the most important percentage there is.… — Puggy Pearson
All gamblers are paranoid, though they call it superstition. — Mario Puzo
It's different for every writer. It's not a career for anyone who needs security. It's a career for gamblers. It's a career of ups and… — George R. R. Martin
It is peculiar but a fact nevertheless, that the gamblers in chess have enthusiastic followers. — Mikhail Botvinnik
Who do you think I am, Pete Rose? I don't bet. I come from a long line of compulsive gamblers. Gambling scares me. — Mario Cantone
In this acausal world, scientists are helpless. Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic. Scientists turn reckless and mutter like gamblers… — Alan Lightman
Some mechanism in my sub-consciousness took the dominant characteristics of various prize-fighters, gunmen, bootleggers, oil field bullies, gamblers, and honest workmen I had come in… — Robert E. Howard
I am not surprised that there are gambling houses, like so many snares laid for human avarice; like abysses where many a man's money is… — Jean de la Bruyere

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