Gambling Quote by George Bernard Shaw Download Open image “In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win.” — George Bernard Shaw ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Gambling Luck May Money Order Winning
Sometimes a 3-1 favorite loses. That's why they call it gambling, and that's why they keep flipping over the cards. — Richard Roeper Copy Share Image
“By carefully scrutinizing and explaining away their losses, while accepting their successes at face value, gamblers do indeed rewrite their personal histories of success… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
If you gamble long enough, you'll always lose -- the gambler is always ruined. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“No one knows how to gamble and win, that’s why they call it gambling.” — Kathryn Smith Copy Share Image
Gambling operates under the premise that greed can be satisfied by luck. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
All gamblers lose regularly, but they rarely discuss it in public. Losing is bad for the image, dude. Nobody buys Hot Tips from Losers.… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“people gamble to lose money. They come to the casinos for the moment in which they feel alive, to ride the spinning wheel and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The real things to know is that folks will stand to lose more than they will to win. Thats the most important percentage there… — Puggy Pearson Copy Share Image
I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State). — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In the arts of life, man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire that no public monument or work of art or inscription or sermon or ritual service commemorating me shall suggest that I accepted the tenets peculiar to any established church or denomination nor take the form of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still communist at the age… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Gambling has held human beings in thrall for millennia. It has been engaged in everywhere, from the dregs of society to the most respectable… — Peter L. Bernstein Copy Share Image
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
“The town will never be the same. After the Tangiers, the big corporations took it all over. Today it looks like Disneyland. And while the kids play cardboard pirates, mommy and daddy dropped the house payments and Junior's college money on the poker slots. In the old days, dealers knew your name, what you drank, what you played - today… — Sam Rothstein Copy Share
I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or… — Omar Sharif Copy Share Image
“My casino experience is to someone else their experience with their employer, of how the company has elected to behave solely for greed, profits,… — John-Talmage Mathis Copy Share Image
And it´s so different for a lot of people I´ve known. One partner doesn´t love the other enough to stop drinking, or gambling, or… — Alma Katsu Copy Share Image
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and to keep them coming back. The longer they play, the more they… — Robert De Niro Copy Share Image
Then they're like addicts; they can't help themselves... They will steal, cheat, embezzle and commit other crimes just to get money to gamble — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
In most betting shops you will see three windows marked 'Bet Here', but only one window with the legend 'Pay Out'. — Jeffrey Bernard Copy Share Image
A lottery is a salutary instrument and a tax... laid on the willing only, that is to say, on those who can risk the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I don't play golf competitively. I tell everybody that I cheat so they won't gamble with me. That's why you can't watch football. Everybody's… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
