Gambling Quotes
361 quotes by 279 authors
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Shockingly, a University of Pennsylvania study says the number of young people addicted to gambling - largely due to increased exposure to the Internet and…
— Spencer Bachus
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Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
— Ambrose Bierce
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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.
— Mel Brooks
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Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow…
— Rita Mae Brown
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Everyone told me to pass on Speed because it was a 'bus movie.'
— Sandra Bullock
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Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.
— Tim Burton
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Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities…
— Vince Cable
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A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in…
— Albert Camus
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It's been a difficult thing because some great opportunities have come and I've just been holding my breath and praying... I'm basically gambling hoping something…
— Charisma Carpenter
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Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.
— James Allen
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If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.
— Woody Allen
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Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing…
— William Cobbett
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
— Jean Cocteau
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Oh, it's not really gambling when you never lose.
— Jennifer Aniston
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The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
— Heywood Hale Broun
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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
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When your opponent's sittin' there holdin' all the aces, there's only one thing to do: kick over the table.
— Dean Martin
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Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his…
— Mark Twain
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I bet on a horse at ten-to-one. It didn't come in until half-past five.
— Henny Youngman
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