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  • I will never be in the stock market. It's just gambling. I'm a gambler, but I'll gamble on the practicality of things.

  • The real loss by gambling is $180,000 to the consumer economy for each slot machine

    Real   Loss   Gambling  
  • Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

  • One of the commonest things to do with savings is to lend them to some Government. In view of the fact that the bulk of the public expenditure of most civilized Governments consists in payment for past wars or preparation for future wars, the man who lends his money to a Government is in the same position as the bad men in Shakespeare who hire murderers. The net result of the man's economical habits is to increase the armed forces of the State to which he lends his savings. Obviously it would be better if he spent the money, even if he spent it in drink or gambling.

    Men  
    Bertrand Russell (2015). “In Praise of Idleness”, p.5, Lulu Press, Inc
  • My lucky number is four billion. That doesn't come in real handy when you're gambling. "Come on, four billion! Darn! Seven. Not even close. I need more dice."

    Funny   Real  
    "Strategic Grill Locations". 1999.
  • Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.

  • I'm the type of guy where one thing leads to another and eventually it gets awful. If I put a $5 bet on a roulette table tonight at 10 o'clock, by tomorrow at noon I would be running guns to Cuba.

  • Yes, prudently invested contributions to the Social Security fund may bring greater dividends, but those contributions would also face a greater risk. It would be like gambling. We should not gamble with the investments and the future of the citizens of this land.

  • I mean, what do you do in Las Vegas? You gamble - and you go to strip clubs.

    Mean   Gambling  
  • Gambling is not a vice, it is an expression of our humanness. We gamble. Some do it at the gaming table, some do not. You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play.

    Winning  
    Jeanette Winterson (2007). “The Passion”, p.73, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

    Gambling   Games  
  • You bring in gambling into a major population base, and the more people you have going into a casino, the more people you have hooked on gambling

  • This was the first time he had seriously confronted what he was doing, and the force of that awareness came very abruptly - with a surging of his pulse and a frantic pounding in his head. He was about to gamble his life on that table, and the insanity of that risk filled him with a kind of awe.

  • Personally I don't think day traders are speculating, because traditional speculation requires some market knowledge. They are, instead, gambling, which doesn't.

    "Levitt to investors: get a clue" by Craig Bicknell, www.wired.com. May 4, 1999.
  • There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.

    Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.21, Library of Alexandria
  • Everybody's a filmmaker today.

    Movie   Gambling  
    Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 07, 2003.
  • As a poodle may have his hair cut long or his hair cut short, as he may be trimmed with pink ribbons or with blue ribbons, yet he remains the same old poodle, so capitalism may be trimmed with factory laws, tenement laws, divorce laws and gambling laws, but it remains the same old capitalism. These "humanitarian parts" are only trimming the poodle. Socialism, one and inseparable with its "antirent and anticapital parts," means to get rid of the poodle.

    Mean  
    "Trimming the Poodle". "The Daily People" Newspaper, November 2, 1908.
  • They head the list of bad to bet on: But I insist they're worse to get on

  • Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.

  • There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother's milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won't be any winners.

  • Whoever plays deep must necessarily lose his money or his character.

    Gambling   Play  
    Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.377, Oxford Paperbacks
  • My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow money from my fellow workmen to settle my room rent and pay for my meals.

    James Weldon Johnson (2012). “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man”, p.67, Courier Corporation
  • If all our political and intellectual elite offers by way of a national culture is "pop music, gambling, fashionable clothes or television," then we can neither mount a convincing intellectual defense against our enemies, nor hope to integrate intelligent, inquiring, and unfulfilled Muslim youths young men principally, of course to our way of life.

    Men   Gambling  
  • Gambling addicts usually lose their focus at work and problem military gambling poses a national security threat

  • 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 whose presence his heart first opened.

    Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.17, Vintage
  • At the Mirage Sportsbook, you can get a line on 2 kid playing wiffleball in the backyard in Minnesota

  • I could have gone for gambling or sex addiction,...But I went for obesity because of the tremendous impact it has.

  • I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.

    Movie   Gambling  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • My last piece of advice to the degenerate slot player who thinks he can beat the one-armed bandit consists of four little words: It can't be done.

    John Scarne (1961). “Complete guide to gambling”
  • I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

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