Gambling Quotes

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

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Stock
  • Cards
  • Dice

• Gambling operates under the premise that greed can be satisfied by luck.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Luck
  • Greed
  • Satisfied

• But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Character
  • Problem
  • Gambling

• Uncertainty doesn't make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Life
  • Uncertainty
  • Gambling

• My father was a gambler. My father could not resist a casino or a card game. He loved gambling.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
  • Father
  • Game
  • Gambling

• No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Should
  • Presidential
  • Vegas

• No use gambling if you can't lose your head once in a while.

  

  Larry Merchant
  • Lose
  • Head
  • Gambling

• The thing about online gambling is that it's never away, it's always accessible. And so, if you have an issue with gambling, it's designed to take advantage of that.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Advantage
  • Online
  • Gambling

• The Church has been and now is unalterably opposed to gambling in any form whatever. It is opposed to any game of chance, occupation, or so-called business, which takes money from the person who may be possessed of it without giving value received in return. It is opposed to all practices the tendency of which is to encourage the spirit of reckless speculation, and particularly to that which tends to degrade or weaken the high moral standard which the members of the Church, and our community at large, have always maintained...

  

  Heber J. Grant
  • Business
  • Church
  • Game of chance

• While we know gambling is part of the industry in Las Vegas, we're not going to make it all that easy for you to pick up a ticket, a gambling ticket, on your way into the arena.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Up
  • Know
  • Easy

• Writing's like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.

  

  M. John Harrison
  • Writing
  • You
  • Gambling

• I'm not a fan of gambling, but I didn't bring gambling to Pittsburgh. This is the only plan that makes sense for Pittsburgh.

  

  Lynn Swann
  • Plan
  • Gambling
  • Pittsburgh

• Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Life
  • Succeed
  • Terrible

• Online gambling is very seductive and very illusory. It can seem like a really good idea. It can seem like what people told you to work hard and get ahead, but when someone shows you something and it's too good to be true, it probably is.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• We never talk about gambling around my house.

  

  Doyle Brunson
  • House
  • Gambling

• In betting on races, there are two elements that are never lacking - hope as hope, and an incomplete recollection of the past.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • Hope
  • Past
  • Race

• I tell ya, gambling never agreed with me. Last week I went to the track and they shot my horse with the opening gun.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Horse
  • Gun
  • Agreed

• I paint inspired by my father, a well known character of the nightlife; a clandestine gambling capitalist and owner of three brothels in Argentina. I develop my work in a time that, from my point of view, is much more romantic than the present day.

  

  Fabian Perez
  • Time
  • Work
  • Character

• Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.

  

  Wilson Mizner
  • Way
  • Gambling
  • Gamble

• I have a bad gambling problem. You're not in show business for 12 years and dress like this without a bad gambling problem.

  

  Artie Lange
  • Business
  • Bad
  • Problem

• Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Property
  • Gambling
  • Rich-something

• 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.

  

  Daniel De Leon
  • Divorce
  • Laws
  • Capitalism

• You know you have a gambling problem when it's 4 A.M. at the Mirage Sports Book and you're walking around going, 'Hey you get the lacrosse scores?'

  

  Artie Lange
  • Book
  • Problem
  • Sports

• If you don't like trading, gambling and betting, then you don't like living.

  

  William C. Brown
  • Living
  • Trading
  • Gambling

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