Gambling Quote by Rita Mae Brown Download Open image “Gambling operates under the premise that greed can be satisfied by luck.” — Rita Mae Brown ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Gambling Greed Luck Premises Satisfied
Gambling is the very embodiment of greed. Greed is its raison d'etre. — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it. — Henry Ward Beecher 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
[Gambling] is a perfidious passion. ... It is bad for one to win, and bad not to win. ... it ends by setting your… — Matilde Serao Copy Share Image
Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“For why is gambling a whit worse than any other method of acquiring money? How, for instance, is it worse than trade? True, out… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“There is a secret that the casinos possess, a secret they hold and guard and prize, the holiest of their mysteries. For most people… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
“The most revolutionary thing you can do is to be yourself, to speak your truth, to open your arms to life including the pain.… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Content without style is propaganda or adolescence. Style without content is decadence. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Whenever I doubt the existence of God or the Goddess, I look at horses. Only God could have made a horse. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Language is decanted and shared. If only one person is left alive speaking a language - the case with some American Indian languages -… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
“what would happen if she'd open her eyes and see only dark and feel satin from the coffin? That'd scare her enough to kill… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
“You know, it’s hell to work with a cat. They really are smarter than we are. Have you ever gotten anyone to feed you,… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
I don't want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
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… — Rita Mae Brown 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… — Sam Rothstein Copy Share Image
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